num_pages: 236
description: This special issue of American Literature testifies that enactments of race, gender, class, sexuality, and region cannot be separated and considers the new questions that emerge when the commas between these constructs are erased and their intersectionality becomes the starting point for analysis.Contents: 	Erasing the commas: racegenderclasssexualityregion / Margo Crawford --Charles Fuller's southern specter and the geography of black masculinity / Riché Richardson --It spoke itself: women's genius and eccentric politics / Victoria Olwell --Tender revisions: Harryette Mullen's "Trimmings" and "S*PeRM**K*T" / Deborah Mix --Nameless outrages: narrative authority, rape, rhetoric, and the Dakota Conflict of 1862 / Janet Dean --Emancipating the lettered slave: sentiment and slavery in Augusta Evans's "St. Elmo" / Elizabeth Trubey --Black hairdresser and social critic: Eliza Potter and the labors of femininity / Xiomara Sanamarina.
language: English
title: Erasing the Commas: RaceGenderClassSexualityRegion
titlecomplete: Erasing the Commas: RaceGenderClassSexualityRegion
publisher: Duke University Press Books