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Trimiko Melancon · 2014
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What this book knows
Black women's transgressive sexuality in literature and culture is a site of radical self-possession, not deviance.
erotic-as-power
Sula unapologetically and boldly asserts her right to subjectivity… takes particular pride in her unconventional status, offering no apologies.
UUTB-RC-066Sula experiences passion and uninhibited sexual ecstasy… filled constantly with 'utmost irony and outrage in lying under someone, in a position of surrender.'
UUTB-RC-063obedience-and-authority
The pill provides choice: the fundamental agency and ownership of her body, a powerful conduit toward liberation and racial/gender/sexual empowerment.
UUTB-RC-036'Almighty God created the races… and he placed them on separate continents'—interracial intimacy transgresses legal and overarching sensibilities across color lines.
UUTB-RC-084embodiment
Sex always manifest as inexplicably violent, excessive, or pornographic—violated early on, Eva's body becomes the terrain of formative, unspoken instruction.
UUTB-RC-120This book analyzes black female transgressive behavior and sexuality, challenging mainstream discourses where the nexus of race and transgression falls into critical inattention.
UUTB-RC-0126 published passages · book excerpt · research analysis
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