pornotrope

Back-formation from pornotroping.

pornotrope (third-person singular simple present pornotropes, present participle pornotroping, simple past and past participle pornotroped)

1. To transform a person into nothing more than a physical body, enslaved to gratify violent and/or sexual impulses.
   • 2006, Daphne Brooks, Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race and Freedom, 1850-1910, →ISBN, page 203:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

pornotrope (plural pornotropes)

1. A stereotype that is the result of pornotroping.
   • 2012, Mimi Sheller, Citizenship from Below: Erotic Agency and Caribbean Freedom, →ISBN:

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

     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.

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

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

     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?