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Stockton, Kathryn Bond, 1958-

Beautiful bottom, beautiful shame : where "Black" meets "queer" / Kathryn Bond Stockton. - Durham : Duke University Press, 2006. - xi, 271 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Series Q .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [257]-264) and index.

Embracing shame: "black" and "queer" in debasement -- Cloth wounds, or when queers are martyred to clothes: debasements of a fabricated skin -- Bottom values: anal economics in the history of black neighborhoods -- When are dirty details and scenes compelling? Tucked in the cuts of interracial anal rape -- Erotic corpse: homosexual miscegenation and the decomposition of attraction -- Prophylactics and brains: slavery in the cybernetic age of AIDS.

ISBN: 0822337835 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780822337836 0822337967 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9780822337966

LCCN: 2005036016

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA639001 bnb

Nat. Bib. Agency Control No.: 013442946 Uk

Subjects--Topical Terms:
American fiction--History and criticism.--20th century
Homosexuality in literature.
Homosexuality and literature--United States.
American fiction--African American authors--History and criticism.
Shame in literature.
African Americans in literature.

LC Class. No.: PS374.H63 / S76 2006

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.509353