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Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction

Jenkins, Jerry Rafiki

Hardcover

Series: New Suns: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Speculative

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 081421536X
ISBN13: 9780814215364
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: Mar 26 2024
Pages: 178
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In Anti-Blackness and Human Monstrosity in Black American Horror Fiction, 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 Black American is disassociated from American. 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 The Between, Victor LaValle's The Changeling, Octavia Butler's Kindred, Nnedi Okorafor's Who Fears Death, 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.

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