@article{1480246,
      recid = {1480246},
      author = {Scott, Darieck, },
      title = {Extravagant Abjection : Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in  the African American Literary Imagination /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with  the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual  legacies in the present, Darieck Scott contends that power  can be found not only in martial resistance, but,  surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with  harm or humiliation.Theorizing the relation between  blackness and abjection by foregrounding often neglected  depictions of the sexual exploitation and humiliation of  men in works by James Weldon Johnson, Toni Morrison, Amiri  Baraka, and Samuel R. Delany, Extravagant Abjection asks:  If we're racialized through domination and abjection, what  is the political, personal, and psychological potential in  racialization-through-abjection? Using the figure of male  rape as a lens through which to examine this question,  Scott argues that blackness in relation to abjection endows  its inheritors with a form of counter-intuitive  power-indeed, what can be thought of as a revised notion of  black power. This power is found at the point at which ego,  identity, body, race, and nation seem to reveal themselves  as utterly penetrated and compromised, without defensible  boundary. Yet in Extravagant Abjection, "power" assumes an  unexpected and paradoxical form.In arguing that blackness  endows its inheritors with a surprising form of  counter-intuitive power-as a resource for the political  present-found at the very point of violation, Extravagant  Abjection enriches our understanding of the construction of  black male identity.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1480246},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814740941.001.0001},
}