{"product_id":"sensual-excess-queer-femininity-and-brown-jouissance-paperback","title":"Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAmber Jamilla Musser\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eReimagines black and brown sensuality to develop new modes of knowledge production\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSensual Excess\u003c\/i\u003e, Amber Jamilla Musser imagines epistemologies of sensuality that emerge from fleshiness. To do so, she works against the framing of black and brown bodies as sexualized, objectified, and abject, and offers multiple ways of thinking with and through sensation and aesthetics. Each chapter draws our attention to particular aspects of pornotropic capture that black and brown bodies must always negotiate. Though these technologies differ according to the nature of their encounters with white supremacy, 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTo do so, \u003ci\u003eSensual Excess\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes moments of brown jouissance that exceed these constraints. These ruptures illuminate multiple epistemologies of selfhood and sensuality that offer frameworks for minoritarian knowledge production which is designed to enable one to sit with uncertainty. Through examinations of installations and performances like Judy Chicago's \u003ci\u003eThe Dinner Party\u003c\/i\u003e, Kara Walker's \u003ci\u003eA Subtlety, \u003c\/i\u003e Patty Chang's\u003ci\u003e In Love \u003c\/i\u003eand Nao Bustamante's \u003ci\u003eNeapolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, Musser unpacks the relationships between racialized sexuality and consumption to interrogate foundational concepts in psychoanalytic theory, critical race studies, feminism, and queer theory. In so doing, \u003ci\u003eSensual Excess\u003c\/i\u003e offers a project of knowledge production focused not on mastery, but on sensing and imagining otherwise, whatever and wherever that might be.\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 06, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42117865668743,"sku":"9781479830954","price":56.43,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/62090b641335eccec6c97857d0d25ac7.webp?v=1732528348","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/sensual-excess-queer-femininity-and-brown-jouissance-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}