Desegregating desire : race and sexuality in Cold War American literature /
Tyler T. Schmidt.
- 1 online resource (288 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The half-told histories of desegregation -- Ambivalent desires: Elizabeth Bishop, Zora Neale Hurston, and domestic desegregation -- War city: Gwendolyn Brooks, Edwin Denby, and the private poetics of public space -- White pervert: William Demby, Ann Petry, and the queer desires of racial belonging -- Damaged desires: Jo Sinclair, Carl Offord, and the traumas of integration -- Conclusion: Intimate failures.
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American literature--History and criticism.--20th century Race relations in literature. Sex in literature.