Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

by Amber Jamilla Musser

Book Overview

Reimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production

In Sensual Excess, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 147983095X
• ISBN13: 9781479830954
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"