Image: jennifer c nash rewrites black feminism s theory of representation her analysis moves beyond black feminism s preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects nash s innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the s and s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography that focuses on black women s pleasures in blackness delights in toying with and subverting blackness

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In The Black Body in Ecstasy, Jennifer C Nash rewrites black feminism's theory of representation Her analysis moves beyond black feminism's preoccupation with injury and recovery to consider how racial fictions can create a space of agency and even pleasure for black female subjects Nash's innovative readings of hardcore pornographic films from the s and s develop a new method of analyzing racialized pornography that focuses on black women's pleasures in blackness delights in toying with and subverting blackness, moments of racialized excitement, deliberate enactments of hyperbolic blackness, and humorous performances of blackness that poke fun at the fantastical project of race Drawing on feminist and queer theory, critical race theory, and media studies, Nash creates a new black feminist interpretative practice, one attentive to the messy contradictions between delight and discomfort, between desire and degradation at the heart of black pleasures