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Imperial blues : geographies of race and sex in jazz age New York / Fiona I. B. Ngô.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ngô, Fiona I. B.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Arts and society--New York (State)--New York--History--20th century.
- Arts and society.
- Immigrants--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Immigrants.
- Minorities--New York (State)--New York--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Minorities.
- Imperialism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (278 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Focusing on the representations of distant lands and exotic bodies that filled the nightclubs of Jazz Age New York, Fiona I. B. Ngô shows how U.S. ambitions abroad shaped racial, gendered, and sexual formations at home.
- Contents:
- Desire and danger in jazz's contact zones
- Queer modernities
- Orienting subjectivities
- Dreaming of Araby
- Academic indiscretions.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822355397
- 0822355396
- 9780822377337
- 0822377330
- OCLC:
- 1155165819
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