Sensual Excess

Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance

Bibliographic Data

ID16995992
AuthorsAmber Jamilla Musser (0009-0006-8413-8462, corresponding author)
Year2020
Pages240
Publication date2020-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueSensual Excess (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherNew York University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.18574/nyu/9781479807031.001.0001
OpenAlexW4252359356
Open LibraryOL27346175M
ISBN9781479807031
LanguageEN
Citations received32

This book offers multiple inroads into thinking with and through the dominant tropes of sexuality. By analyzing particular works of art, each chapter draws our attention to specific aspects of pornotropic (violent and exoticizing) capture that black and brown people must negotiate. These technologies differ, but together, they add to our understanding of the ways that structures of domination produce violence and work to contain bodies and pleasures within certain legible parameters. In addition, the book identifies and analyzes moments that exceed these constraints—the sensual excess that is theorized as brown jouissance . Brown jouissance is a political and philosophical intervention into what constitutes selfhood, knowledge, and fleshiness. The book works through several examples of brown jouissance in the work of Lyle Ashton Harris, Kara Walker, Mickalene Thomas, Xandra Ibarra, Amber Hawk Swanson, Cheryl Dunye, Carrie Mae Weems, Nao Bustamante, Patty Chang, and Maureen Catbagan by dwelling on the analytic possibilities opened by the artwork’s entanglement with the sensual. The sensual, in turn, leads us to imagine possibilities for orienting relationality around queer femininity

Art · Femininity · Psychoanalysis · Queer · Sociology · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology · Lesbianism · Sexual excitement

Tools

Open DOILibgen