Desegregating desire : race and sexuality in Cold War American literature
by
 
Schmidt, Tyler T.

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

Author
Schmidt, Tyler T.

ISBN
9781621039464

Personal Author
Schmidt, Tyler T.

Physical Description
1 online resource (288 pages)

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.

Local Note
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

Subject Term
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
 
Race relations in literature.
 
Sex in literature.

Genre
Electronic books.

Electronic Access
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LibraryMaterial TypeItem BarcodeShelf NumberStatus
IYTE LibraryE-Book2348099-1001PS228 .R32 S36 2013Ebrary E-Books