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Book SynopsisWhen 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? This title deals with these questiions.
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Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame is an exciting, pointed, splendidly written, culturally important book.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of
Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, PerformativityTable of ContentsAcknowledgments ix
Introduction Embracing Shame: “Black” and “Queer” in Debasement 1
1. Cloth Wounds, or When Queers Are Martyred to Clothes: Debasements of a Fabricated Skin 39
2. Bottom Values: Anal Economics in the History of Black Neighborhoods 67
3. When Are Dirty Details and Scenes Compelling? Tucked in the Cuts of Interracial Anal Rape 101
4. Erotic Corpse: Homosexual Miscegenation and the Decomposition of Attraction 149
5. Prophylactics and Brains: Slavery in the Cybernetic Age of AIDS 177
Conclusion: Dark Camp: Behind and Ahead 205
Notes 223
Bibliography 257
Index 265
