Against the Closet : Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race /

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Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom.

Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Race relations.
Queer theory.
Identity (Psychology)
African Americans > Sexual behavior.
African Americans > Race identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > African American Studies.
Identite (Psychologie)
Theorie queer.
Noirs americains > Sexualite.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Histoire.
United States > Race relations > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Introduction. Against the closet : racial identity and the bodily basis/biases of sexual identity
  • "The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in antebellum African American slave narratives
  • Iconographies of gang-rape, or, black enfranchisement, white disavowal, and the (homo)erotics of lynching
  • Desire and treason in mid-twentieth century political protest fiction
  • Recovering the little black girl : incest and black American textuality
  • Conclusion. In memoriam : Michael Jackson, 1958-2009.

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