The Delectable Negro: Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture

by Vincent Woodard

Book Overview

Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation

Unearths connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture that has largely been ignored until now

Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814794629
• ISBN13: 9780814794623
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.1"