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Against the closet : black political longing and the erotics of race / Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- African Americans--Race identity.
- African Americans.
- African Americans--Sexual behavior.
- Queer theory.
- Identity (Psychology).
- United States--Race relations--History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (215 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction. Against the closet : racial identity and the bodily basis/biases of sexual identity
- "The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in antebellum African American slave narratives
- Iconographies of gang-rape, or, black enfranchisement, white disavowal, and the (homo)erotics of lynching
- Desire and treason in mid-twentieth century political protest fiction
- Recovering the little black girl : incest and black American textuality
- Conclusion. In memoriam : Michael Jackson, 1958-2009.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781283742382
- 1283742381
- 9780822391883
- 0822391880
- OCLC:
- 811253565
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