Delectable Negro
Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationScholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were…
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Winner of the 2015 LGBT Studies Award presented by the Lambda Literary FoundationScholars 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 which Blacks experienced their consumption as a fundamentally homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores these connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in the context of American literature and US slave culture.Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of OlaudahEquiano, Harriet Jacobs, and
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