pornotrope

present singular third person pornotropes · participle present pornotroping · participle past pornotroped · past pornotroped

1. To transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.

   In an outrageous skit in which he pornotropes Aunt Jemima, he begins innocently enough by relating the story of his mother confiscating his porn magazines when he was a teenager.

   2008, Glenda Carpio, Laughing Fit to Kill: Black Humor in the Fictions of Slavery, →ISBN

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   If minstrelsy had grotesquely pornotroped the sexual availability of "light-skinned" women and "mulatta coquettes" by burdening them with operating as the objects of erotic pursuit, then Menken's breeches (counter)act in Three Fast Women must be considered as another paradoxical parody on her part.

   2006, Daphne Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, →ISBN, page 203

   They also inaugurate an immediate epoch in midcentury America's mass culture during which similar, and similarly pornotroped, visions of black masculinity would take center stage.

   2012, Maurice O. Wallace, Shawn Michelle Smith, Pictures and Progress, →ISBN

plural pornotropes

1. A stereotype that is the result of pornotroping.

   These dynamics create a new “pornotrope” that distinguishes the colonial nostalgia production from the banlieusard production: the difficult Arab boy, far removed from the always-available Arab boy of yesteryear.

   2017, Masha Belenky, Kathryn Kleppinger, Anne O’Neil-Henry, French Cultural Studies for the Twenty-First Century, →ISBN, page 84

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   Can raw language, lyrics, and sexual expression be served up as counter-discourses to national sexuality, or do they merely feed into preexisting pornotropes of national and transnational racial and sexual subordination?

   2012, Mimi Sheller, Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom, →ISBN

   Baker seemed to fit the “pornotrope” of the wild, polymorphously perverse child: the goofy grin, the elastic legs, and the maddening derriere wiggling uncontrollably in a provocative dance, topless, in a banana skirt.

   2012, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Blackening Europe: The African American Presence, →ISBN, page 41

   Pornotropes likes “Mandingo fighter” or “pleasin' Nigger” thus present a question that this chapter is also preoccupied with: “How does the historical question of violent political domination activate a surplus and excess of sexuality that simultaneously sustains and disfigures said brutality?

   2017, Leigh Raiford, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Migrating the Black Body: The African Diaspora and Visual Culture, →ISBN