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Desegregating Desire - Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature (Paperback)
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Desegregating Desire - Race and Sexuality in Cold War American Literature (Paperback)
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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 on poets Gwendolyn Brooks and
Edwin Denby, analyzes their representations of the postwar American
city, representations which often transpose private desires into a
public imaginary. Chapter three explores how insular racial
communities in the novels of Ann Petry and William Demby were
related to non-normative sexualities emerging in the early Cold
War. The final chapter, focused on damaged desires, considers the
ways that novelists Jo Sinclair and Carl Offord, relocate the
public traumas of desegregation with the private spheres of homes
and psyches. Aligning close textual readings with the segregated
histories and interracial artistic circles that informed these Cold
War writers, this project defines desegregation as both a racial
and sexual phenomenon, one both public and private. In analyzing
more intimate spaces of desegregation shaped by regional, familial,
and psychological upheavals after World War II, Tyler T. Schmidt
argues that ""queer"" desire--understood as same-sex and
interracial desire--redirected American writing and helped shape
the Cold War era's integrationist politics.
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