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Becoming human : matter and meaning in an antiblack world / Zakiyyah Iman Jackson.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Sexual culturesPublication details: New York New York University Press 2020Description: 303 p. illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781479890040
  • 9781479830374
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 809.8896 JAC-Z 23
LOC classification:
  • PN841 .J33 2020
Contents:
On becoming human : an introduction -- Losing manhood : plasticity, animality, and opacity in the (neo)slave narrative -- Sense of things : empiricism and world in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown girl in the ring -- 'Not our own:' sex, genre, and the insect poetics of Octavia Butler's Bloodchild -- Organs of war : measurement and ecologies of dematerialization in the works of Wangechi Mutu and Audre Lorde -- Coda : towards a somatic theory of necropower.
Summary: ""Becoming Human" explores matter and meaning in an antiblack world"--
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Item type Current library Collection Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Course Reference Books Course Reference Books BITS Pilani Hyderabad 800 Text & Reference Section (Student cannot borrow these books) 809.8896 JAC-Z (Browse shelf(Opens below)) INR 2774.40 Available 49018
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

On becoming human : an introduction -- Losing manhood : plasticity, animality, and opacity in the (neo)slave narrative -- Sense of things : empiricism and world in Nalo Hopkinson's Brown girl in the ring -- 'Not our own:' sex, genre, and the insect poetics of Octavia Butler's Bloodchild -- Organs of war : measurement and ecologies of dematerialization in the works of Wangechi Mutu and Audre Lorde -- Coda : towards a somatic theory of necropower.

""Becoming Human" explores matter and meaning in an antiblack world"--

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