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A taste for brown bodies : gay modernity and cosmopolitan desire / Hiram Pérez.
LIBRA HQ76.25 .P47236 2015
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pérez, Hiram, author.
- Series:
- Sexual cultures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gay people in popular culture.
- African American gay people.
- Minority gay people.
- Minority gays.
- Gay men.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 179 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2015]
- Summary:
- Facuses on three figures with elusive queer histories--the sailor, the soldier, and the cowboy--and shows how each has been desired for their heoric masculinity while at the same time functioning as agents for U.S. expansion.
- Contents:
- The queer afterlife of Billy Budd
- Going to meet the man in Abu Ghraib
- The global taste for queer
- You can have my brown body and eat it, too!
- Gay cowboys close to home.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-168) and index.
- Lambda Literary Awards - LGBT Studies, Winner, 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781479818655
- 1479818658
- 9781479845866
- 1479845868
- OCLC:
- 906658669
- Publisher Number:
- 40025331332
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