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Desegregating Desire

Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature

Autor: Tyler T Schmidt

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Editura: University Press of Mississippi

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An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality A study o...

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Autor

Tyler T Schmidt

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engleză

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Carte - Copertă tare

Publicat

2013

Pagini

272

EAN

9781617037832

ISBN

9781617037832

Enbook ID

08810352

Editura

University Press of Mississippi

Greutate

624

Dimensiuni

152 x 229 x 22

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An exploration of writers who examine integration through the charged lens of sexuality 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 identities in the aftermath of World War II. Focusing on both progressive and conventional forms of cross-race writing and interracial intimacy, the book is organized around four pairs of writers. Chapter one examines reimagined domestic places, and the ambivalent desires that define them, in the southern writing of Elizabeth Bishop and Zora Neale Hurston. The second chapter, focused on poets Gwendolyn Brooks and Edwin Denby, analyzes their representations of the postwar American city, representations that often transpose private desires into a public imaginary. Chapter three explores how insular racial communities in the novels of Ann Petry and William Demby were related to non-normative sexualities emerging in the early Cold War. The final chapter, focused on damaged desires, considers the ways that novelists Jo Sinclair and Carl Offord relocate the public traumas of desegregation with the private spheres of homes and psyches. Aligning close textual readings with the segregated histories and interracial artistic circles that informed these Cold War writers, this project defines desegregation as both a racial and sexual phenomenon, one both public and private. In analyzing more intimate spaces of desegregation shaped by regional, familial, and psychological upheavals after World War II, Tyler T. Schmidt argues that "queer" desire--understood as same-sex and interracial desire--redirected American writing and helped shape the Cold War era's integrationist politics. Tyler T. Schmidt, New York, New York, is an assistant professor of English at Lehman College. His work has been published in African American Review, Women's Studies Quarterly, and Radical Teacher.

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