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Frottage : frictions of intimacy across the black diaspora / Keguro Macharia.
Author
Macharia, Keguro
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : New York University Press, [2019]
Description
ix, 207 pages ; 24 cm
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Firestone Library - Stacks
DT16.5 .M26 2019
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African diaspora
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Black people
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Social conditions
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Sex
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Queer theory
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Series
Sexual cultures
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Summary note
"In Frottage, Keguro Macharia weaves together histories and theories of blackness and sexuality to generate a fundamentally new understanding of both the black diaspora and queer studies. Macharia maintains that to reach this understanding, we must re-think not only the historical and theoretical utility of identity categories such as gay, lesbian, and bisexual; but also more foundational categories such as normative and non-normative, human and non-human. Simultaneously, Frottage questions the heteronormative tropes through which the black diaspora has been imagined. Between Frantz Fanon, René Maran, Jomo Kenyatta, and Claude McKay, Macharia moves through genres--psychoanalysis, fiction, anthropology, poetry--as well as regional geohistories across Africa and Afro-diaspora to map the centrality of sex, gender, desire, and eroticism to black freedom struggles. In lyrical, meditative prose, Macharia invigorates frottage as both metaphor and method with which to rethink diaspora by reading--and reading against--discomfort, vulnerability, and pleasure."--Page [4] of book cover.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-195) and index.
Contents
Introduction: Frottage
1. Frantz Fanon's homosexual territories
2. Mourning the erotic in René Maran's Batouala
3. Ethnicity as frottage in Jomo Kenyatta's Facing Mount Kenya
4. Antinomian intimacy in Claude McKay's Jamaica
beginnings, in seven movements.
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ISBN
9781479881147 ((hardcover))
1479881147 ((hardcover))
9781479865017 ((paperback))
147986501X ((paperback))
LCCN
2019007704
OCLC
1091844670
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