The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography

by Jennifer C. Nash

Book Overview

In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Nash's innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 1980s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography that focuses on black...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822356201
• ISBN13: 9780822356202
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.6" x 8.9"