pornotroping

This profound intimacy of interlocking detail is disrupted, however, by externally imposed meanings and uses: (1) the captive body as the source of an irresistible, destructive sensuality; (2) at the same time -- in stunning contradiction-- it is reduced to a thing, to being for the captor; (3) in this distance from a subject position, the captured sexualities provide a physical and biological expression of “otherness”; (4) as a category of “otherness,” the captive body translates into a potential for pornotroping and embodies sheer physical powerlessness that slides into a more general "powerlessness," resonating through various centers of human and social meaning.

2003, Hortense J. Spillers, Black, White, and in Color: Essays on American Literature and Culture, →ISBN

Unlike Douglass, who turns away from representing the exteriority of black femininity, pornotroping functions as the complex generative source of Brown's identity construction, which rhetorically hovers between maternal fleshiliness and masculine personhood.

2008, Michael A. Chaney, Fugitive Vision: Slave Image and Black Identity in Antebellum Narrative, →ISBN

The offensive typology of blackness offered up in Mam's law seems to set up an impassable barrier to anything like an originary African ethnicity: any proud reclaiming of African origins is always already anticipated by a voracious pornotroping.

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