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A review of three books by Christopher Breu, Alexander Weheliye, and Amber Jamilla Musser, all dealing with biopolitics of the body.

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The review considers the attention to flesh, the body, corporeality in contemporary biopolitical theory.

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This page is a summary of: The Insistence of the MaterialHabeas Viscus: Racializing Assemblages, Biopolitics, and Black Feminist Theories of the HumanSensational Flesh: Race, Power, and Masochism, American Literature, September 2016, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/00029831-3650295.
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