Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
Against the Closet: Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
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Abdur-Rahman brings black feminist, psychoanalytic, critical race, and poststructuralist theories to bear on literary genres from slave narratives to science fiction. Analyzing works by African American writers, including Frederick Douglass, Pauline Hopkins, Harriet Jacobs, James Baldwin, and Octavia Butler, she shows how literary representations of transgressive sexuality expressed the longings of African Americans for individual and collective freedom. Abdur-Rahman contends that those representations were fundamental to the development of African American forms of literary expression and modes of political intervention and cultural self-fashioning.
Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I.
Published: 02/18/2020
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822352419
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 9.20h x 5.70w x 0.60d