Fiona I B Ngô

Imperial Blues

Geographies of Race and Sex in Jazz Age New York

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780822355243
• ISBN-10: 0822355248
• Artikelnr.: 37750849

Autorenporträt

Fiona I. B. Ngô is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies and of Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction 1
1. Desire and Danger in Jazz's Contact Zones 33
2. Queer Modernities 71
3. Orienting Subjectivities 121
4. Dreaming of Araby 155
Conclusion. Academic Indiscretions 187
Notes 193
Bibliography 231
Index 251