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Sexploitation & Permanent Obscurity
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Black Urban Lit In books, I think the strongest vestiges of sexploitation exist in Black Urban Lit (or what’s condescendingly referred to as “ghetto pulps”). Many of the authors (unlike in the days of ‘70s blaxploitaiton) are black and female, yet they don’t hesitate in portraying their female protagonists as trash-talking, baddass, sexual creatures. There’s no equivalent in white fiction. And what I think is cool is that portraying “unsympathetic traits” in women is not taboo in Black Urban Lit as it is in white fiction, especially white chicklit, where part of what makes the characters “sympathetic” is this cracker notion that they have no dark side. Check it out for yourself: those used to chicklit will be shocked.
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This site is © 2010 Richard Perez
PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale Of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography, and Death : a novel by Richard Perez : is a kind of “Thelma and Louise,” sexploitation/tabloid inspired story set in the East Village, NYC, a story of two down-and-out gals, both would-be artists, who set out to make a femdom movie with disastrous results.