Desegregating desire race and sexuality in Cold War American literature /
"A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identit...
| Main Author: | Schmidt, Tyler T. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2013]
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| Physical Description: |
viii, 279 pages ; 24 cm. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.