Funk the Erotic: Transaesthetics and Black Sexual Cultures (New Black Studies Series)

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A must-read for anyone working on spirituality and sexuality! -- particularly from a women-of-color context.

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Funk the Erotic creates a different sort of epistemological practice organized around funk— funk as research aesthetic that argues for radical forms of knowledge production; funk as political practice that advocates an antiwork politics and culture; funk as multi-sensory, multidimensional philosophy that recalibrates the human/non-human divide. Throughout the book, funk functions as a mode of inquiry that privileges the sensory, and the psychic—this is affect studies rooted in soul and spirit, with a heart throbbing bass line.Thoroughly original, this book offers significant innovative contributions to several fields including African American studies, queer theory, gender studies, popular culture, and aesthetics. The dynamism of the writing and the subject matter of the book will no doubt appeal to a wide range of audiences. Unlike many academic books on sex—the writing here is alive—it thumps and grinds, it agitates and ignites, it is pulsing through and through with an energy that is visceral, it reeks of funk. Stallings is poised to shake up how we think, read, write, feel the erotic.