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Domestic allegories of political desire the Black heroine's text at the turn of the century / by Tate, Claudia

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Afrindian Fictions : Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa / by Rastogi, Pallavi

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Psychoanalysis and Black novels desire and the protocols of race / by Tate, Claudia

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Afrindian Fictions : Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa / by Rastogi, Pallavi

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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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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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Queer in black and white interraciality, same sex desire, and contemporary African American culture / by Dunning, Stefanie K., 1973-

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How the west was won essays on the literary imagination, the canon, and the Christian middle ages for Burcht Pranger /

Table of Contents: “…De obitu Valentiniani : Abelard, Bernard of Clairvaux, and the canonization of Ambrose of Milan on baptism by desire /…”
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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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Imagining Methodism in eighteenth-century Britain enthusiasm, belief, & the borders of the self / by Anderson, Misty G., 1967-

Table of Contents: “…Historicizing methodism -- The new man: Desire, transformation, and the methodist body -- Words made flesh: Fanny Hill and the language of passion -- Actors and ghosts: Methodism in the theater of the real -- "'My Lord, my love:' the performance of public intimacy and the Methodist hymn -- A usable past: reconciliation in Humphry Clinker and the spiritual Quixote.…”
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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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A journey into Ireland's literary revival by Felton, R. Todd, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…The Irish literary revival : a geography of the public and the private -- County Galway : home among the swallows -- The Aran Islands : a little corner on the face of the world -- County Mayo : a queer lot these times -- County Sligo : the land of heart's desire -- County Wicklow : south and west and south again -- Dublin : the public stage -- Timeline.…”
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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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Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch essays on race and sexuality / by McBride, Dwight A.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the new Black Studies, or beyond the old 'race man' -- Straight Black Studies -- Why I hate Abercrombie & Fitch -- It's a white man's world : race in the gay marketplace of desire -- On race, gender, and power : the case of Anita Hill -- Feel the rage : a personal remembrance of the 1992 Los Angelos uprising -- Ellen's coming out : media and public hype -- Affirmative action and white rage -- Speaking the unspeakable : on Toni Morrison, African American intellectuals, and essentialist rhetoric -- Cornel West and the rhetoric of race transcending -- Can the queen speak? …”
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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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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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