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
Autor principal: Schmidt, Tyler T.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Sex in literature.
Race relations in literature.
American literature.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Sexualite dans la litterature.
Relations raciales dans la litterature.
Litterature americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
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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