By Vincent Woodard, Dwight McBride, Justin A. Joyce, E. Patrick Johnson
Scholars people and transatlantic slavery have mostly neglected or brushed off accusations that Black americans have been cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person’s claims of human intake heavily, concentrating on either the literal hunger of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism at the a part of the slaveholder, and extra attracts cognizance to the ways that Blacks skilled their intake as a essentially homoerotic occurrence. The Delectable Negro explores those connections among homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of intake within the context of yankee literature and US slave culture.
Utilizing many staples of African American literature and tradition, reminiscent of the slave narratives of OlaudahEquiano, Harriet Jacobs, and Frederick Douglass, in addition to different much less circulated fabrics like James L. Smith’s slave narrative, runaway slave ads, and diverse articles from Black newspapers released within the 19th century, Woodard strains the racial assumptions, political aspirations, gender codes, and philosophical frameworks that dictated either eu and white American arousal in the direction of Black men and starvation for Black male flesh. Woodard makes use of those texts to unpack how slaves struggled not just opposed to social intake, but in addition opposed to endemic mechanisms of hunger and starvation designed to damage them. He concludes with an exam of the debatable chain gang oral intercourse scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved, suggesting that even on the finish of the 20th and starting of the twenty-first century, we're nonetheless at a loss for language with which to explain Black male starvation inside of a plantation tradition of consumption.
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Isolating issues of male secrecy, shame, and honor inherent in the Essex affair, I move to a broader discussion of the same issues in the slave narratives of black men who documented their social consumption. Finally, in the context of black male lives and voices, I look at the widespread nineteenth-century concern over whether the United States was becoming a cannibal nation. This debate, which 26 << Introduction occurred among the clergy, congressmen, judges, and artists, among others, centered upon slavery as an essentially consumptive institution.
The final chapter of the book, chapter 6, “The Hungry Nigger,” opens with an examination of the controversy surrounding the chain-gang oral sex scene in Toni Morrison’s Beloved. Black male responses to this scenario and the novel in general have ranged from accusations of homophobia to a lambasting of Morrison’s “valorization of black suffering” to reading the scene as a psychoanalytic encapsulation of black male erotic life on the plantation. I suggest that the profound usefulness of this scenario is in conveying how, at the end of the twentieth and beginning of the twenty-first century, we are still at a loss for language and appropriate metaphors with which to describe black male hunger within a plantation culture of consumption.
The word “homoeroticism” in my study serves as a referent for a large set of same-sex desires and intimacies that include romantic friendship between men, same-sex incest in the context of plantation patriarchy, the romanticization of and exoticization of whiteness, and literal and metaphoric cannibalism, among other things. All of these terms I identify and extrapolate from their appropriate historical and cultural contexts. Often, though, when a blanket term is called for, I use the word “homoeroticism” to refer to any combination of these subcategories of experience.