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Policing intimacy : law, sexuality, and the color line in twentieth-century hemispheric American literature / Jenna Grace Sciuto.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sciuto, Jenna Grace, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race discrimination.
- Sex discrimination.
- Racism in literature.
- Sex in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 233 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- "We will have to wait": racial hierarchies, plantation intimacy, and sexual policing in William Faulkner's Mississippi
- "There is no in-between": community, sexuality, and the shifting construction of race in Ernest Gaines's Louisiana
- "They were starting something": race, gender, and failed revolution in Ernest Gaines's Of Love and Dust
- "For fear of a scandal": Sexual control, racism, and the public nature of private relations in Marie Chauvet's twentieth-century Haiti
- "We are trawling in silences here": race, sexuality, and unnarratable histories in literary depictions of Dominican dictatorship
- Coda: Looking back in resistance, looking to the present.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Sciuto, Jenna Grace. Policing intimacy
- ISBN:
- 9781496833495
- 149683349X
- 9781496833464
- 1496833465
- 9781496833471
- 1496833473
- 9781496833488
- 1496833481
- Publisher Number:
- 40030514064
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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