{"product_id":"funk-the-erotic-9780252081101","title":"Funk the Erotic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEmily Toth Award for Best Single Work by One or More Authors in Women's Studies, Popular Culture Association\/American Culture Association (PCA\/ACA), 2016\u003cbr\u003e Finalist, 28th Annual Lambda Literary Awards, LGBT Studies, 2016\u003cbr\u003e Alan Bray Memorial Book Award, GL\/Q Caucus of the Modern Language Association, 2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"\u003ci\u003eFunk the Erotic\u003c\/i\u003e opens a new avenue in black thought and feeling, one dis\/oriented by the sensorium rather than the cerebrum.\"--\u003ci\u003eFeminist Wire\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFunk the Erotic\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\"--\u003ci\u003eAmerican Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eRinaldo Walcott, author of \u003ci\u003eBlack Like Who?: Writing Black Canada\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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 \u003ci\u003ePunctuation: Art, Politics, and Play\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eFunk the Erotic\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003ci\u003eFunk the Erotic\u003c\/i\u003e is a bold, brilliant, unapologetically superfreaky text.\"--Erica R. Edwards, author of \u003ci\u003eCharisma and the Fictions of Black Leadership\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"University of Illinois Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400499863895,"sku":"9780252081101","price":18.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780252081101.jpg?v=1730470833","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/funk-the-erotic-9780252081101","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}