{"product_id":"anti-blackness-and-human-monstrosity-in-black-american-horror-fiction-9780814215364","title":"Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction","description":"In \u003ci\u003eAnti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, \u003c\/i\u003e Jerry Rafiki Jenkins examines four types of human monsters that frequently appear in Black American horror fiction--the monsters of White rage, respectability, not-ness, and serial killing. Arguing that such monsters represent specific ideologies of American anti-Blackness, Jenkins shows that despite their various motivations for harming and killing Black people, these monsters embody the horrors that emerge when \u003ci\u003eBlack American\u003c\/i\u003e is disassociated from \u003ci\u003eAmerican\u003c\/i\u003e. Although these monsters of anti-Blackness are dangerous because they can terrorize Black people with virtual impunity, their anti-Black sadism, as Jenkins calls it, is what makes them repulsive. Jenkins examines a variety of these monstrous forms in Tananarive Due's \u003ci\u003eThe Between, \u003c\/i\u003e Victor LaValle's \u003ci\u003eThe Changeling, \u003c\/i\u003e Octavia Butler's \u003ci\u003eKindred, \u003c\/i\u003e Nnedi Okorafor's \u003ci\u003eWho Fears Death, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other works. While these monsters and the texts that they populate ask us to think about the role that anti-Blackness plays in being or becoming American, they also offer intellectual resources that Black and non-Black people might use to combat the everyday versions of human monstrosity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jerry Rafiki Jenkins\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio State University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/26\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 178\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780814215364\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJerry Rafiki Jenkins is a Professor in the Department of English and Humanities at Palomar College. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Paradox of Blackness in African American Vampire Fiction.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43792742514803,"sku":"9.78081E+12","price":188.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_083d8154-cf02-4f3b-9820-18197b25b085.jpg?v=1758104878","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/anti-blackness-and-human-monstrosity-in-black-american-horror-fiction-9780814215364","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}