02644cim a2200349 i 4500 2521403875 TxAuBib 20240826120000.0 r 250812s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781666116014 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book 1666116017 sound recording : hoopla Audio Book MWT15365735 Midwest rda TxAuBib rda Woodard, Vincent, author. The Delectable Negro [Hoopla] : Human Consumption and Homoeroticism Within Us Slave Culture / Vincent Woodard. Unabridged. [United States : Tantor Media, Inc., 2022. Made available through hoopla. 1 online resource (1 audio file (12hr., 05 min.)) : digital. spw rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Instant title available through hoopla. Read by Stan Brown. 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 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. Utilizing many staples of African American literature and culture, such as the slave narratives of Olaudah Equiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, as well as other less circulated materials like James L. Smith's slave narrative, runaway slave advertisements, and numerous articles from Black newspapers published in the nineteenth century, Woodard traces the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated both European and white American arousal towards Black males and hunger for Black male flesh. He concludes with an examination of the controversial chain gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison's Beloved, suggesting that even at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language with which to describe Black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption. Contains mature themes. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Hoopla Audiobook. Brown, Stanley, reader. hoopla digital. https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/15364649?utm_source=MARC&Lid=hh2017 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ttm_9781666116014_180.jpeg Cover image