Against the Closet
Subtitle: identity, political longing, and black figuration
By: Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780822352242; 9780822352419
Subjects: Race relations; Race identity; History; Sexual behavior; African Americans; Queer theory; Identity (Psychology)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Against the closet : racial identity and the bodily basis/biases of sexual identity; title: "The strangest freaks of despotism": queer sexuality in antebellum African American slave narratives; title: Iconographies of gang-rape, or, black enfranchisement, white disavowal, and the (homo)erotics of lynching; title: Desire and treason in mid-twentieth century political protest fiction; title: Recovering the little black girl : incest and black American textuality; title: Conclusion. In memoriam : Michael Jackson, 1958-2009.