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Shame, Kathryn Bond Stockton Argues In Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame, Has Often Been A Meeting Place For The Signs Black And Queer And For Black And Queer People--overlapping Groups Who Have Been Publicly Marked As Degraded And Debased. But When And Why Have Certain Forms Of Shame Been Embraced By Blacks And Queers? How Does Debasement Foster Attractions? How Is It Used For Aesthetic Delight? What Does It Offer For Projects Of Sorrow And Ways Of Creative Historical Knowing? How And Why Is It Central To Camp? Stockton Engages The Domains Of African American Studies, Queer Theory, Psychoanalysis, Film Theory, Photography, Semiotics, And Gender Studies. She Brings Together Thinkers Rarely, If Ever, Read Together In A Single Study--james Baldwin, Radclyffe Hall, Jean Genet, Toni Morrison, Robert Mapplethorpe, Eldridge Cleaver, Todd Haynes, Norman Mailer, Leslie Feinberg, David Fincher, And Quentin Tarantino--and Reads Them With And Against Major Theorists, Including Georges Bataille, Sigmund Freud, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Jacques Lacan, Roland Barthes, And Leo Bersani. Stockton Asserts That There Is No Clear, Mirrored Relation Between The Terms Black And Queer; Rather, Seemingly Def

Author

Kathryn Bond Stockton

Publisher

Duke University Press Books

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780822337836

Subjects

Science, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.96 / 5 (49 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14