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Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction de Jerry Rafiki Jenkins

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative

Autor Jerry Rafiki Jenkins
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In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of human monsters that frequently appear in Black American horror fiction—the monsters of White rage, respectability, not-ness, and serial killing. Arguing that such monsters represent specific ideologies of American anti-Blackness, Jenkins shows that despite their various motivations for harming and killing Black people, these monsters embody the horrors that emerge when Black American is disassociated from American. Although these monsters of anti-Blackness are dangerous because they can terrorize Black people with virtual impunity, their anti-Black sadism, as Jenkins calls it, is what makes them repulsive. Jenkins examines a variety of these monstrous forms in Tananarive Due's The Between, Victor LaValle's The Changeling, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death, and many other works. While these monsters and the texts that they populate ask us to think about the role that anti-Blackness plays in being or becoming American, they also offer intellectual resources that Black and non-Black people might use to combat the everyday versions of human monstrosity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814259054
ISBN-10: 0814259057
Pagini: 178
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Seria New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative

Recenzii

“Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction is sharp and intellectually daring. Jenkins’s treatment of violence and prospects of Black counter-violence make it a timely resource for Black studies scholars and social and cultural critics of all kinds.” —Greg Thomas, author of Hip-Hop Revolution in the Flesh: Power, Knowledge, and Pleasure in Lil’ Kim’s Lyricism

“Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction is a necessary work that emphasizes the sanity and rationality of monstrous figures. Jenkins persuasively contends that combining Afropessimism and affirmation of Black life in fiction can provide resistance to the deadliness of the racial reality of anti-Blackness.” —Keith Byerman, author of Remembering the Past in Contemporary African American Fiction

Notă biografică

Jerry Rafiki Jenkins is a Professor in the Department of English and Humanities at Palomar College. He is the author of The Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction.

Extras

My goal in Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity is not to provide an exhaustive list of the types of human monsters that appear in Black American horror fiction; instead, I seek to discuss the human monsters that one is most likely to encounter when reading Black horror fiction. I argue that these monsters can be grouped into four categories—the monsters of White rage, respectability, not-ness, and serial killing—and can be read as personifications of American anti-Blackness, ideologies of Americanness that have been used to devalue the Black body and, consequently, America’s Blackness. More specifically, these human monsters represent the ways in which concepts such as the American Dream, American womanhood, American manhood, and the American serial killer have been used to justify the production and consumption of Black bodies in pain. Thus, as João H. Costa Vargas and Moon-Kie Jung contend, anti-Blackness is not a type of racism or logic of “domination and subjection”; instead, it is “an antisocial logic that not only dehumanizes Black people but also renders abject all that is associated with Blackness.” Although Barbara Harris Combs conceptualizes racism in Bodies out of Place: Theorizing Anti-Blackness in U.S. Society (2022) as a form of anti-Blackness, she also identifies George Yancy’s discussion of the Black body in North American Whiteness as an example of a type of anti-Blackness. Given Yancey’s description of Whiteness’s Black body as “the monstrous,” “an anomaly of nature” that is the “essence of vulgarity and immorality” as well as “criminality itself”, Combs seems aware that anti-Blackness is, as Vargas and Jung put it, “a logic of social and ontological abjection.” As I show throughout Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity, while the White rage, respectability, not-ness, and serial killing monsters are dangerous because they can terrorize Black people with virtual impunity, what makes them repulsive and threats to common knowledge is the anti-Black sadism that encourages their violent and ahistorical disavowal of America’s Blackness. Racial sadism, as defined herein, refers to the pleasure that one receives from inflicting pain on members of a particular racialized group or watching that group in pain; therefore, anti-Black sadism is defined as the enjoyment one receives from producing and consuming Black people in pain. This definition draws upon Claire Raymond’s use of the term sadism in her analysis of Carrie Mae Weems’s installation From Here I Saw What Happened and I Cried (1995–96), which depicts “the sadism of American slavery and racism” through its rephotographed images of Black women degraded by White men of science. Unlike Sigmund Freud, who saw sadism as primarily a sexual perversion, Raymond defines sadism as “a ‘delight in cruelty’” and “a delight in watching cruelty, which could also be a delight in creating humiliating images of other human beings.” Thus, reading the human monsters of Black American horror fiction as anti-Black sadists means reading them as embodiments of the enduring and almost invisible everyday routines of domination that characterize much of Black life in the contemporary world, what Christina Sharpe refers to as the “sadomasochism of everyday black life.” This also means that the pleasure that these monsters of anti-Blackness receive from producing and consuming Black people in pain is not only sexual, social, and psychological, but also ideological.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments Introduction Barely Humans, Black Horror, and American Anti-Blackness Chapter 1 The Monsters of White Rage Chapter 2 The Monsters of Respectability Chapter 3 The Monsters of Not-Ness Chapter 4 The Monsters of Serial Killing Conclusion Eliminating Anti-Blackness and Its Monsters Works Cited Index

Descriere

Examines common monster tropes in Black American horror fiction, arguing that they represent specific ideologies of American anti-Blackness and inspire tactics for combatting real-life anti-Blackness.