Tate, SA (2015) Black Women's Bodies and The Nation: Race, Gender and Culture. Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences . Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 9781137355270
Abstract
Black Women's Bodies and the Nation develops a decolonial approach to representations of Black women's bodies within popular culture in the US, UK and the Caribbean and the racialization and affective load of muscle, bone, fat and skin through the trope of the subaltern figure of the Sable-Saffron Venus as an 'alter/native' (Truillot, 2003). Enslavement, colonialism and settlement in the metropole created the Black woman's body as both other/same and deeply affective whether read as fear, disgust, contempt or fascination. Her body draws attention to the negotiations through which the semblance of consensus on the citizen body is created at the same time as Black women's bodies as Sable-Saffron Venus alter/natives rupture the collective body formed through the (re)iteration, (re)interpretation and (re)presentation of the meanings of muscle, bone, fat and skin. This dismantling of body norms reveals other modes of being through disalienation's (Césaire, 2000) refusal of the racial epidermal schema (Fanon, 1967).
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Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | Social Science |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Education, Social Sciences and Law (Leeds) > School of Sociology and Social Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 30 Oct 2015 16:03 |
Last Modified: | 30 Oct 2015 16:03 |
Published Version: | http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/black-womens-b... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
Series Name: | Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:90109 |