Against the Closet - Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race

Informationen zum Autor Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman is Assistant Professor of English at Brandeis University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Against the Closet: Racial Identity and the Bodily Basis/Biases of Sexual Identity 1 1. "The Strangest Freaks of Despotism": Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African American Slave Narratives 25 2. Iconographies of Gang-Rape: Or, Black Enfranchisement, White Disavowel, and the (Homo)erotics of Lynching 51 3. Desire and Treason in Mid-Twentieth-Century Political Protest Fiction 82 4. Recovering the Little Black Girl: Incest and Black American Textuality 114 Conclusion. In Memorium: Michael Jackson, 1958-2009 151 Notes 157 Works Cited 181 Index 193

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• Authors: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 04.09.2012
• EAN: 9780822352419
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5241-9
• No. of pages: 216
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; Literaturtheorie, Amerika, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature - Classics / Criticism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / African American