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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: L.H. Stallings , L H StallingsPublisher: University of Illinois Press Imprint: University of Illinois Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780252039591ISBN 10: 0252039599 Pages: 296 Publication Date: 07 August 2015 Audience: College/higher education , Undergraduate , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews"Emily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association (PCA/ACA), 2016 Finalist, 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Studies, 2016 Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, GL/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 2016 ""Funk the Erotic opens a new avenue in black thought and feeling, one dis/oriented by the sensorium rather than the cerebrum.""--Feminist Wire ""Funk the Erotic is a groundbreaking work in its scope, its methodological breadth, and the creativity and originality of the ideas in introduces into several discourses. In theorizing funk as a specifically erotic, bodily, and embodiable hermeneutic for understanding sexuality across mediums and genres, Stallings proposes exciting shifts in black feminist, performance studies, sexuality studies, and literary studies methodologies.""--American Quarterly ""Stallings reframes Black (female) sexualities for us in a fashion that moves us closer to recognizing and thinking it as a form of freedom in its practice."" --Rinaldo Walcott, author of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada ""Where Toni Morrison theorized 'eruptions of funk' in African American literature, this book funks the erotic taking up trans politics, nineteenth-century freaks, funky beats, and other queerly sexed subjects that make up 'profane sites of memory.'""--Jennifer Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics, and Play ""Funk the Erotic is a passionately delivered and urgently necessary analysis of black sexuality, literature, and popular culture. By reading the 'funky erotixxx' of black sexual cultures against the dominant trends in black studies, L. H. Stallings offers us an alternative archive of African American literature, one composed of forgotten novels, sex manuals, YouTube videos, adult magazines, and so much more. Funk the Erotic is a bold, brilliant, unapologetically superfreaky text.""--Erica R. Edwards, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership" Funk the Erotic is a passionately delivered and urgently necessary analysis of black sexuality, literature, and popular culture. By reading the 'funky erotixxx' of black sexual cultures against the dominant trends in black studies, L.H. Stallings offers us an alternative archive of African American literature, one composed of forgotten novels, sex manuals, YouTube videos, adult magazines, and so much more. Funk the Erotic is a bold, brilliant, unapologetically superfreaky text.--Erica R. Edwards, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Stallings reframes Black (female) sexualities for us in a fashion that moves us closer to recognizing and thinking it as a form of freedom in its practice. --Rinaldo Walcott, author of Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada Funk the Erotic is a passionately delivered and urgently necessary analysis of black sexuality, literature, and popular culture. By reading the 'funky erotixxx' of black sexual cultures against the dominant trends in black studies, L.H. Stallings offers us an alternative archive of African American literature, one composed of forgotten novels, sex manuals, YouTube videos, adult magazines, and so much more. Funk the Erotic is a bold, brilliant, unapologetically superfreaky text.--Erica R. Edwards, author of Charisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership Funk the Erotic is a groundbreaking work in its scope, its methodological breadth, and the creativity and originality of the ideas in introduces into several discourses. In theorizing funk as a specifically erotic, bodily, and embodiable hermeneutic for understanding sexuality across mediums and genres, Stallings proposes exciting shifts in black feminist, performance studies, sexuality studies, and literary studies methodologies. --American Quarterly Funk the Erotic opens a new avenue in black thought and feeling, one dis/oriented by the sensorium rather than the cerebrum. --Feminist Wire Where Toni Morrison theorized 'eruptions of funk' in African American literature, this book funks the erotic taking up trans politics, nineteenth century freaks, funky beats, and other queerly sexed subjects that make up 'profane sites of memory.' --Jennifer Brody, author of Punctuation: Art, Politics and Play Author InformationL.H. Stallings is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |