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Sensual Excess SEXUAL CULTURES General Editors: Ann Pellegrini, Tavia Nyong’o, and Joshua Chambers- Letson Founding Editors: José Esteban Muñoz and Ann Pellegrini Titles in the series include: Times Square Red, Times Square Blue Queer Latinidad: Identity Practices, Discur- Samuel R. Delany sive Spaces Juana María Rodríguez Private Affairs: Critical Ventures in the Culture of Social Relations Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Phillip Brian Harper Limits of Religious Tolerance Janet R. Jakobsen and Ann Pellegrini In Your Face: 9 Sexual Studies Many Merck Boricua Pop: Puerto Ricans and the Latini- zation of American Culture Tropics of Desire: Interventions from Queer Frances Négron- Muntaner Latino America Manning the Race: Reforming Black Men in José A. Quiroga the Jim Crow Era Murdering Masculinities: Fantasies of Gender Marlon Ross and Violence in the American Crime Novel In a Queer Time and Place: Transgender Gregory Forter Bodies, Subcultural Lives Our Monica, Ourselves: The Clinton Affair J. Jack Halberstam and the National Interest Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch: Essays Edited by Lauren Berlant and Lisa A. on Race and Sexuality Duggan Dwight A. McBride Black Gay Man: Essays God Hates Fags: The Rhetorics of Religious Robert F. Reid- Pharr Violence Passing: Identity and Interpretation in Michael Cobb Sexuality, Race, and Religion Once You Go Black: Choice, Desire, and the Edited by Maria C. Sanchez and Linda Black American Intellectual Schlossberg Robert Reid- Pharr The Explanation for Everything: Essays on The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in Sexual Subjectivity American Literary and Cultural Memory Paul Morrison Lázaro Lima The Queerest Art: Essays on Lesbian and Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body Gay Theater in Nineteenth- Century America Edited by Alisa Solomon and Framji Dana Luciano Minwalla Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Globalizations: Citizenship and the Queer Futurity Afterlife of Colonialism José Esteban Muñoz Edited by Arnaldo Cruz Malavé and Mar- Another Country: Queer Anti- Urbanism tin F. Manalansan IV Scott Herring Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, Embodied Avatars: Genealogies of Black and Sexuality in the African American Feminist Art and Performance Literary Imagination Uri McMillan Darieck Scott A Taste for Brown Bodies: Gay Modernity Relocations: Queer Suburban Imaginaries and Cosmopolitan Desire Karen Tongson Hiram Pérez Beyond the Nation: Diasporic Filipino Wedlocked: The Perils of Marriage Equality Literature and Queer Reading Katherine Franke Martin Joseph Ponce The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, Single: Arguments for the Uncoupled and Pornography Michael Cobb Ariane Cruz Brown Boys and Rice Queens: Spellbinding Archives of Flesh: African America, Spain, Performance in the Asias and Post- Humanist Critique Eng- Beng Lim Robert F. Reid- Pharr Transforming Citizenships: Transgender Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Articulations of the Law Left: A History of the Impossible Isaac West Malik Gaines The Delectable Negro: Human Consump- A Body, Undone: Living on After Great tion and Homoeroticism within US Slave Pain Culture Christina Crosby Vincent Woodard, Edited by Justin A. The Life and Death of Latisha King: A Joyce and Dwight A. McBride Critical Phenomenlogy of Transphobia Sexual Futures, Queer Gestures and Other Gayle Salamon Latina Longings Queer Nuns: Religion, Activism, and Seri- Juana María Rodríguez ous Parody Sensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Melissa M. Wilcox Masochism After the Party: A Manifesto for Queer of Amber Jamilla Musser Color Life The Exquisite Corpse of Asian America: Joshua Chambers- Letson Biopolitics, Biosociality, and Posthuman Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Ecologies Brown Jouissance Rachel C. Lee Amber Jamilla Musser Not Gay: Sex between Straight White Men For a complete list of books in the series, Jane Ward see www.nyupress.org Sensual Excess Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance Amber Jamilla Musser NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS New York www.nyupress.org © 2018 by New York University All rights reserved References to Internet websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor New York University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Musser, Amber Jamilla, author. Title: Sensual excess : queer femininity and brown jouissance / Amber Jamilla Musser. Description: New York : New York University, [2018] | Series: Sexual cultures | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2018011913 | ISBN 9781479807031 (cl : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781479830954 (pb : alk. paper) Subjects: LCSH: Lesbianism. | Sexual excitement. Classification: LCC HQ75.5 .M87 2018 | DDC 306.76/63—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018011913 New York University Press books are printed on acid- free paper, and their binding materials are chosen for strength and durability. We strive to use environmentally responsible suppli- ers and materials to the greatest extent possible in publishing our books. Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Also available as an ebook This book is dedicated to dialogue, plurality, being- with, and most especially, MA. Contents Introduction: Brown Jouissance and Inhabitations of the Pornotrope 1 1. Eating Out: The Labial, Consumption, and the Scalar 27 2. Surface Play: Flash, Friction, and Self- Reflection 46 3. Deep Listening, Belonging, and the Pleasures of Brown Jouissance 69 4. Performing Witness: Voice, Interiority, and Diaspora 95 5. Weeping Machines: Automaticity, Looping, and the Possibilities of Perversion 119 6. Femme Aggression and the Value of Labor 144 Coda: Elsewhere, Is the Mother a Place? 167 Acknowledgments 181 Notes 185 Bibliography 205 Index 221 About the Author 237 ix
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