The Black Body in Ecstasy: Reading Race, Reading Pornography by Jennifer C. Nash
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Overview: In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash rewrites black feminism’s theory of representation. Her analysis moves beyond black feminism’s preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects. Nash’s innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the 1970s and 1980s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography focused on black women’s pleasures in blackness: delights in toying with and subverting blackness, moments of racialized excitement, deliberate enactments of hyperbolic blackness, and humorous performances of blackness that poke fun at the fantastical project of race. Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Nash creates a new black feminist interpretative practice, one attentive to the messy contradictions—between delight and discomfort, between desire and degradation—at the heart of black pleasures.
"In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C. Nash abandons a long-standing framework in black feminist criticism: that pornography is bad to and for black women. She boldly reads pornography for black women’s ecstasy. Through careful analysis of key films from porn’s golden era, Nash develops an argument that is innovative, fearless, and, ultimately, affirming of possibilities for black women’s bodies, fantasies, and sexual lives." —Nicole R. Fleetwood, author of Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness
"This is an important book and its readers will know it. The first chapter on black feminist theories of representation brilliantly contextualizes the political stakes of the book’s commitment to black women’s pleasure. I predict that The Black Body in Ecstasy will be considered the most definitive statement to date on black feminist theory’s engagement with visual representation." —Robyn Wiegman, author of Object Lessons
Genre: Non-Fiction > General > Race > Feminism
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