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Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
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Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968 / Michael P. Bibler.
ISBN
9780813927916 (cloth : alk. paper)
0813927919 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780813927923 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813927927 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Published
Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Physical Description
x, 298 p. ; 23 cm.
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Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
April 02, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.
Contents
Introduction: in the kitchens and on the verandas
Nation and plantation between Gone with the wind and black power: the example of Ernest J. Gaines's Of love and dust
Planters and lovers. Intraracial homoeroticism and the loopholes of taboo in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! ; Homo-ness and fluidity in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a hot tin roof
The southern kitchen romance. A queer sense of justice in Lillian Hellman's dramas of the Hubbard family ; Katherine Anne Porter, Margaret Walker, and the uncomfortable compromise of black women's autonomy
The queer black fraternity. Sex, community, and rebellion in William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner ; Arna Bontemps's Black thunder: between masculine politics and feminine difference
Conclusion: on the southern plantation, real love is always ambivalent.
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