Desegregating Desire: Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature

by Tyler T Schmidt

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A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities in the aftermath of World War II. Focusing on both progressive and conventional forms of cross-race writing and interracial intimacy, the book is organized around four pairs of writers. Chapter one examines reimagined domestic places, and the ambivalent desires that define them, in the southern writing of Elizabeth Bishop and Zora Neale Hurston. The second chapter; focused...Read more
  • ISBN10 1621039463
  • ISBN13 9781621039464
  • Publish Date 11 September 2013 (first published 16 August 2013)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Imprint University Press of Mississippi
  • Format eBook
  • Pages 288
  • Language English