Black Political Longing and the Erotics of Race
by
Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2012
In Against the Closet, Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman interrogates and challenges cultural theorists' interpretations of sexual transgression in African American literature. She argues that, from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of erotic transgression to contest...