{"product_id":"anti-blackness-and-human-monstrosity-in-black-american-horror-fiction-9780814259054","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\u003cbr\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","brand":"Ohio State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50458965049618,"sku":"9780814259054","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0dec29cd-010b-4c51-9868-595930b8dc8d.jpg?v=1729969826","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/anti-blackness-and-human-monstrosity-in-black-american-horror-fiction-9780814259054","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}