Desegregating desire : race and sexuality in Cold War American literature /

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A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, this book examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities in the afterm...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schmidt, Tyler T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Temas:
1900-1999
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Race relations in literature.
Sex in literature.
Littérature américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Relations raciales dans la littérature.
Sexualité dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
American literature
Race relations in literature
Sex in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : The half-told histories of desegregation
  • Ambivalent desires : Elizabeth Bishop, Zora Neale Hurston, and domestic desegregation
  • War city : Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, and the private poetics of public space
  • White pervert : William Demby, Ann Petry, and the queer desires of racial belonging
  • Damaged desires : Jo Sinclair, Carl Offord, and the traumas of integration
  • Conclusion : Intimate failures.

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