Aberrations in black
Subtitle: toward a queer of color critique
By: Roderick A. Ferguson.
Series: Critical American studies series
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Minneapolis
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 175
Copyright date: 2004
Subjects: Baldwin, James, 1924-; Wright, Richard, 1908-1960.; Ellison, Ralph.; Morrison, Toni.; American fiction -- African American authors -- History and criticism.; Homosexuality and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Gays' writings, American -- History and criticism.; African American gays -- Intellectual life.; Gays -- United States -- Intellectual life.; African Americans in literature.; Gays in literature.; Canon (Literature)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-165) and index.
Table of contents: title: Queer of color critique, historical materialism, and canonical sociology; title: The knee-pants of servility : American modernity, the Chicago school, and native son; title: The specter of Woodridge : canonical formations and the anticanonical in Invisible man; title: Nightmares of the heteronormative : Go tell it on the mountain versus an American dilemma; title: Something else to be : Sula, the Moynihan report, and the negations of Black lesbian feminism; title: Toward the end of normativity.