Vincent Woodard
Biographic Data
| ID | 7527603 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincent Woodard |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincent |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodard |
| SIGNATURE | WOODARD V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Sex, honor, and human consumption
This chapter analyzes literal and symbolic examples of human consumption in the antebellum United States. It begins with a discussion of the Essex affair, which involved the consumption of four black men in the nineteenth century. Similar cases during the period involving black men continue to evoke strong feelings of shame and dishonor among American whites and Europeans today. These cases also illuminate how “the choice” made by whites to eat b…
The Delectable Negro
Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in …
The Delectable Negro
Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationScholarsof US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations thatBlack Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslavedperson’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literalstarvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of theslaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which …
An Archive of Hunger
Research Article| March 01 2007 An Archive of Hunger Vincent Woodard Vincent Woodard University of Colorado at Boulder [email protected] Vincent Woodard is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published articles and poetry in Callaloo and Obsidian II. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Delectable Negro: Homoeroticism and Human Consumption within U.S. Slave Culture, 1820–19…
Just as Quare as They Want to Be
The latter part of the 20th century has seen the emergence of radical black lesbian\nfeminists and gay men who have begun to address the forces within black culture and\nthe culture at large that have rendered their experiences and sensibilities silent.\nTheorizing from margin to center, individuals such as Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith,\nEssex Hemphill, and Joseph Beam, among others, have undertaken the hard work of\ncreating language and theoretic…
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Just as Quare as They Want to Be
The latter part of the 20th century has seen the emergence of radical black lesbian\nfeminists and gay men who have begun to address the forces within black culture and\nthe culture at large that have rendered their experiences and sensibilities silent.\nTheorizing from margin to center, individuals such as Audre Lorde, Barbara Smith,\nEssex Hemphill, and Joseph Beam, among others, have undertaken the hard work of\ncreating language and theoretic…
An Archive of Hunger
Research Article| March 01 2007 An Archive of Hunger Vincent Woodard Vincent Woodard University of Colorado at Boulder [email protected] Vincent Woodard is assistant professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He has published articles and poetry in Callaloo and Obsidian II. He is currently completing a book manuscript titled The Delectable Negro: Homoeroticism and Human Consumption within U.S. Slave Culture, 1820–19…
The Delectable Negro
Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationScholarsof US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations thatBlack Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslavedperson’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literalstarvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of theslaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in which …
The Delectable Negro
Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies award presented by the Lambda Literary Foundation Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveholder, and further draws attention to the ways in …
Sex, honor, and human consumption
This chapter analyzes literal and symbolic examples of human consumption in the antebellum United States. It begins with a discussion of the Essex affair, which involved the consumption of four black men in the nineteenth century. Similar cases during the period involving black men continue to evoke strong feelings of shame and dishonor among American whites and Europeans today. These cases also illuminate how “the choice” made by whites to eat b…
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