Aliyyah I Abdur-Rahman

Against the Closet

Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780822352242
• ISBN-10: 0822352249
• Artikelnr.: 35057976

Autorenporträt

Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Against the Closet: Racial Identity and the Bodily
Basis/Biases of Sexual Identity 1
1. "The Strangest Freaks of Despotism": Queer Sexuality in Antebellum
African American Slave Narratives 25
2. Iconographies of Gang-Rape: Or, Black Enfranchisement, White Disavowel,
and the (Homo)erotics of Lynching 51
3. Desire and Treason in Mid-Twentieth-Century Political Protest Fiction 82
4. Recovering the Little Black Girl: Incest and Black American Textuality
114
Conclusion. In Memorium: Michael Jackson, 1958-2009 151
Notes 157
Works Cited 181
Index 193