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Policing Intimacy - Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature (Hardcover)
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Policing Intimacy - Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature (Hardcover)
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In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in
Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna
Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the
color line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories:
Mississippi through William Faulkner's work, Louisiana through
Ernest Gaines's novels, Haiti through the work of Marie Chauvet and
Edwidge Danticat, and the Dominican Republic through writing by
Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, and Nelly Rosario. This literature
exposes the continuing coloniality that links depictions of US
democracy with Caribbean dictatorships in the twentieth century,
revealing a set of interrelated features characterizing the
transformation of colonial forms of racial and sexual control into
neocolonial reconfigurations. A result of systemic inequality and
large-scale historical events, the patterns explored herein reveal
the ways in which private relations can reflect national
occurrences and the intimate can be brought under public scrutiny.
Acknowledging the widespread effects of racial and sexual policing
that persist in current legal, economic, and political
infrastructures across the circum-Caribbean can in turn bring to
light permutations of resistance to the violent discriminations of
the status quo. By drawing on colonial documents, such as early law
systems like the 1685 French Code Noir instated in Haiti, the 1724
Code Noir in Louisiana, and the 1865 Black Code in Mississippi, in
tandem with examples from twentieth-century literature, Policing
Intimacy humanizes the effects of legal histories and leaves space
for local particularities. By focusing on literary texts and
variances in form and aesthetics, Sciuto demonstrates the necessity
of incorporating multiple stories, histories, and traumas into
accounts of the past.
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