Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968
Record details
- ISBN: 0813929849
- ISBN: 9780813929842
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 298 pages)
remote - Publisher: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-288) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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