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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? 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, Performativity

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments 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

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: 19/07/2006
      ISBN13: 9780822337966, 978-0822337966
      ISBN10: 0822337967
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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? This title deals with these questiions.

      Trade Review
      “Beautiful Bottom, Beautiful Shame is an exciting, pointed, splendidly written, culturally important book.”—Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, author of Touching Feeling: Affect, Pedagogy, Performativity

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments 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

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