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Author Jackson, Zakiyyah Iman, author.

Title Becoming human : matter and meaning in an antiblack world / Zakiyyah Iman Jackson
Published New York : New York University Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (303 pages) : illustrations
Series Sexual cultures
Sexual cultures.
Contents On becoming human : an introduction -- Losing manhood : plasticity, animality, and opacity in the (neo)slave narrative -- Sense of things : empiricism and world in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown girl in the ring -- 'Not our own:' sex, genre, and the insect poetics of Octavia Butler's Bloodchild -- Organs of war : measurement and ecologies of dematerialization in the works of Wangechi Mutu and Audre Lorde -- Coda : towards a somatic theory of necropower
Summary ""Becoming Human" explores matter and meaning in an antiblack world"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from pdf title page (Proquest, viewed August 11, 2020)
Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ Studies, 2021
Subject Literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism
African diaspora in literature.
Black people in literature.
Africans in literature.
Black people -- Race identity.
Humanism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- African-American.
African diaspora in literature.
Africans in literature.
Black people in literature.
Black people -- Race identity.
Humanism in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Literature -- Black authors.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781479834556
1479834556