The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography

March 15, 2014
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Jennifer Nash examines how racial fictions can create a space of agency and pleasure for female subjects through the reading of hardcore pornographic films. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Nash creates a new black feminist interpretative practice that is attentive to the contradictions at the heart of black pleasures.

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http://www.amazon.com/The-Black-Body-Ecstasy-Pornography/dp/0822356201