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Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature
Jenna Grace Sciuto
Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature
Jenna Grace Sciuto
Analyses literary depictions of sexual policing of the colour line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through William Faulkner's work, Louisiana through Ernest Gaines's novels, Haiti through Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat, and the Dominican Republic through work by Julia Alvarez, Junot Diaz, and Nelly Rosario.
256 pages, 9 black & white illustrations
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | April 22, 2021 |
ISBN13 | 9781496833457 |
Publishers | University Press of Mississippi |
Pages | 256 |
Dimensions | 228 × 151 × 20 mm · 381 g |
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