Desegregating desire : race and sexuality in Cold War American literature /

Main Author: Schmidt, Tyler T.
Format: Book
Language:English
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10756952
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The half-told histories of desegregation
  • Ambivalent desires: Elizabeth Bishop, Zora Neale Hurston, and domestic desegregation
  • War city: Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, and the private poetics of public space
  • White pervert: William Demby, Ann Petry, and the queer desires of racial belonging
  • Damaged desires: Jo Sinclair, Carl Offord, and the traumas of integration
  • Conclusion: Intimate failures.