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Policing Intimacy : Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature /
"In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the color line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through William Faulkne...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2021.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- "We will have to wait": racial hierarchies, plantation intimacy, and sexual policing in William Faulkner's Mississippi
- "There is no in-between": community, sexuality, and the shifting construction of race in Ernest Gaines's Louisiana
- "They were starting something": race, gender, and failed revolution in Ernest Gaines's Of Love and Dust
- "For fear of a scandal": Sexual control, racism, and the public nature of private relations in Marie Chauvet's twentieth-century Haiti
- "We are trawling in silences here": race, sexuality, and unnarratable histories in literary depictions of Dominican dictatorship
- Coda: Looking back in resistance, looking to the present.