The Commerce of Peoples: Sadomasochism and African American Literature

By Biman Basu

The Commerce of Peoples introduces a new way of reading. It puts into place a sadomasochistic framework which allows for both diachronic and synchronic analysis. By reading sadomasochistic practice as historical and defining it in terms of practices of embodiment, by alternating between analysis and synthesis, between specific texts and general principles, it provides a new theoretical framework and a new methodology for the analysis of literature and culture.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 073916743X
• ISBN13: 9780739167434
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 22 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher