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Desegregating desire : race and sexuality in Cold War American literature / by Schmidt, Tyler T.

Table of Contents: “…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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Deficits and desires economics and sexuality in twentieth-century literature / by Tratner, Michael

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Men beyond desire manhood, sex, and violation in American literature / by Greven, David

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Desire, violence & divinity in modern southern fiction Katherine Anne Porter, Flannery O'Connor, Cormac McCarthy, Walker Percy / by Ciuba, Gary M.

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Where the World Is Not : Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature / by Savelson, Kim

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Where the World Is Not : Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature / by Savelson, Kim

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Homecoming queers desire and difference in Chicana Latina cultural production / by Danielson, Marivel T.

Table of Contents: “…Queering home: desire meets theory meets art -- Speaking selves: language and identity in transition -- Moving violations: performing the limits of representation in Marga Gomez's Jaywalker -- The birdy and the bees: queer Chicana girlhood in Carla Trujillo's What night brings -- Complicating community: Terri De La Peña, Cristina Serna, Frances Negrón Muntaner, Ela Troyano, and Carmelita Tropicana -- The erotics of home: Monica Palacios, Marga Gomez, and Carmelita Tropicana -- Dancing with devils: gendered violence in novels by Emma Pérez and Achy Obejas -- Our art is our weapon: women of color transforming academia.…”
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Reading Chican@ like a queer the de-mastery of desire / by Soto, Sandra K., 1968-

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Where the World Is Not Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature / by Savelson, Kim

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Once you go Black choice, desire, and the Black American intellectual / by Reid-Pharr, Robert, 1965-

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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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Innocence and rapture the erotic child in Pater, Wilde, James, and Nabokov / by Ohi, Kevin, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : innocence and rapture -- "Doomed creatures of immature radiance" : Renaissance, death, and rapture in Walter Pater -- Narcissists anonymous : reading and Dorian Gray's new worlds -- "Blameless and foredoomed" : innocence and haste in The turn of the screw -- Sentimentality, desire, and aestheticism in Lolita.…”
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Nationalism, Marxism, and African American literature between the wars a new Pandora's box / by Dawahare, Anthony, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Black nationalist discourse in the postwar period -- The dual nationalism of Alain Locke's The new Negro -- The dance of nationalism in the Harlem Renaissance -- Marxism and Black proletarian literary theory -- Langston Hughes's radical poetry and the "end of race" -- Richard Wright's critique of nationalist desire -- Beyond twentieth-century nationalisms in the study of African American culture.…”
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Evolutionary rhetoric sex, science, and free love in nineteenth-century feminism / by Hayden, Wendy, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…The Season of Battle: The Rhetoric of Free-Love Feminism in Nineteenth-Century America -- Evolutionary Theory: (R) volutionary Rhetorics in the Free Love Movement -- Physiology: Rewriting the Body and Sexual Desire -- Bacteriology: Marriage as a diseased Institution -- Embryology: Toward a Eugenic Warrant for Free-Love Feminism -- Heredity: The Disappearing Reform Warrant -- Conclusion: Historiography and Feminist Uses of Eugenics.…”
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The American counterfeit authenticity and identity in American literature and culture / by Balkun, Mary McAleer

Table of Contents: “…The real, the self, and commodity culture, 1880-1930 -- Whitman's natural history : specimen days and the culture of authenticity -- "I couldn't see no profit in it" : discourses of commoditization and authenticity in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn -- Connoisseurs and counterfeits : Edith Wharton's The house of mirth -- Dressing to kill : desire, race, and authenticity in Nella Larsen's Passing -- A world of wonders : collecting and the authentic self in The great Gatsby.…”
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Writing the ghetto class, authorship, and the Asian American ethnic enclave / by Chang, Yoonmee, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Writing the ghetto -- "Like a slum": ghettos and ethnic enclaves, ghetto and genre -- The Japanese American internment : master narratives and class critique -- Chinese suicide: political desire and queer exogamy -- Ethnic entrepreneurs: Korean American spies, shopkeepers, and the 1992 Los Angeles riots -- Indian Edison: the ethnoburbian paradox and corrective ethnography -- Conclusion : A fork in the road: the post-racial aesthetic and class visibility.…”
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Fractured borders reading women's cancer literature / by DeShazer, Mary K.

Table of Contents: “…"The night-side of life" : analyzing cancer literature from feminist perspectives -- "Skinnied on the left side like a girl" : embodying cancer on the feminist stage -- Entering "The house of lightning" : resistance and transformation in U.S. women's breast cancer poetry -- Dying into the lite : popular fiction, cancer, and the romance of women's relationships -- "Floating out on a yacht called Eros" : memory, desire, and death in women's experimental cancer fiction -- "Entering cancerland" : self-representation, commonality, and culpability in women's autobiographical narratives.…”
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Capturing the beat moment cultural politics and the poetics of presence / by Mortenson, Erik, 1970-

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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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