Chocolate and blackness : a cultural history / Silke Hackenesch.

"Why is chocolate such a popular metaphor in the construction of blackness in various spheres of (popular) culture? Why are metaphors for edibility that also work as sexual allusions used in reference to blackness? This book looks at chocolate and blackness from different angles: it provides a...

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Main Author: Hackenesch, Silke (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Frankfurt : Campus Verlag, [2017]
©2017.
Series:North American studies ; 38.
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