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Alvin J. Henry's Black Queer Flesh makes not only a significant and needed contribution to Black literary studies, but indeed will transform twentieth-century African American criticism and theory. His critical articulation of 'Black queer flesh' shaped by theories of Black self-abnegation offers a critical approach that makes it possible to rethink the Black queer self in key literary texts. -Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance Alvin J. Henry's lush theorization of Black queer flesh is a mode of being, a performance of the self outside of subjectivity that highlights how the anxieties and violence of racialization manifest. This is a study in negative sensation. Black Queer Flesh digests these moments of raw embodiment so as to remake intimacy, being, and the very nature of the novel itself. -Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism

""Alvin J. Henry’s Black Queer Flesh makes not only a significant and needed contribution to Black literary studies, but indeed will transform twentieth-century African American criticism and theory. His critical articulation of ‘Black queer flesh’ shaped by theories of Black self-abnegation offers a critical approach that makes it possible to rethink the Black queer self in key literary texts.""-Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance ""Alvin J. Henry’s lush theorization of Black queer flesh is a mode of being, a performance of the self outside of subjectivity that highlights how the anxieties and violence of racialization manifest. This is a study in negative sensation. Black Queer Flesh digests these moments of raw embodiment so as to remake intimacy, being, and the very nature of the novel itself.""-Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism

""Alvin J. Henry’s Black Queer Flesh makes not only a significant and needed contribution to Black literary studies, but indeed will transform twentieth-century African American criticism and theory. His critical articulation of ‘Black queer flesh’ shaped by theories of Black self-abnegation offers a critical approach that makes it possible to rethink the Black queer self in key literary texts.""—Gary Edward Holcomb, author of Claude McKay, Code Name Sasha: Queer Black Marxism and the Harlem Renaissance ""Alvin J. Henry’s lush theorization of Black queer flesh is a mode of being, a performance of the self outside of subjectivity that highlights how the anxieties and violence of racialization manifest. This is a study in negative sensation. Black Queer Flesh digests these moments of raw embodiment so as to remake intimacy, being, and the very nature of the novel itself.""—Amber Jamilla Musser, author of Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism

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Alvin J. Henry is assistant professor of English at St. Lawrence University in New York. He is editor of Psychoanalysis in Context.

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