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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808483203321

Autore

Dunning Stefanie K. <1973->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-253-00299-0

9786612238277

1-282-23827-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (148 p.)

Disciplina

700/.452664

Soggetti

American fiction - African American authors - History and criticism

African Americans - Intellectual life

Homosexuality in literature

Homosexuality in motion pictures

Homosexuality in music

Race relations in literature

Race relations in motion pictures

African Americans - Race identity

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 "Ironic Soil": Recuperative Rhythms and Negotiated Nationalism -- 2 "No Tender Mercy": Same-Sex Desire,Interraciality, and the Black Nation -- 3 (Not) Loving Her: A Locus of Contradictions -- 4 "She's a B*(u)tch": Centering Blackness inThe Watermelon Woman -- Epilogue: Reading Robert Reid-Pharr -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these "texts," Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity. She shows that representations of interracial desire do not follow the logic of racial exclusion. Instead they are metaphorical and anti-biological. Rather



than diluting race, interracial desire makes race visible. By invoking the interracial, black gay and lesbian artists can remake our conception of blackness.