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03328aam a2200505 i 4500 001 1F45CAAAA36B11E3A3DF8D90DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140304010113 008 130416s2013 msu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2013011471 020 $a 9781617037849 (ebook) 020 $a 1617037842 (ebook) 020 $a 1617037834 (cloth : alk. paper) 020 $a 9781617037832 (cloth : alk. paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)815383688 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCO $d MUU $d CDX $d CHVBK $d YUS $d STF $d OCLCF $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PS228.R32 $b S36 2013 082 00 $a 810.9/355 $2 23 100 1 $a Schmidt, Tyler T. 245 10 $a Desegregating desire : $b race and sexuality in Cold War American literature / $c Tyler T. Schmidt. 264 1 $a Jackson : $b University Press of Mississippi, $c [2013] 300 $a viii, 279 pages ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-270) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a A study of race and sexuality and their interdependencies in American literature from 1945 to 1955, Desegregating Desire examines the varied strategies used by eight American poets and novelists to integrate sexuality into their respective depictions of desegregated places and emergent identities in the aftermath of World War II. Focusing on both progressive and conventional forms of cross-race writing and interracial intimacy, the book is organized around four pairs of writers. ... Aligning close textual readings with the segregated histories and interracial artistic circles that informed these Cold War writers, this project defines desegregation as both a racial and sexual phenomenon, one both public and private. In analyzing more intimate spaces of desegregation shaped by regional, familial, and psychological upheavals after World War II, Tyler T. Schmidt argues that "queer" desire--understood as same-sex and interracial desire--redirected American writing and helped shape the Cold War era's integrationist politics. -- Publisher website. 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. 650 0 $a Race relations in literature. 650 0 $a Sex in literature. 650 7 $a Erotik. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Ethnische Beziehung. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Literatur. $2 gnd 650 7 $a Rasse. $2 gnd 651 7 $a USA. $2 gnd 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00807113 650 7 $a Literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00999953 650 7 $a Race relations. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01086509 650 7 $a Sex. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01114160 648 7 $a 1900 - 1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 941 $a 3 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231017021916.0 952 $l PMAX975 $d 20191119044453.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826081139.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=1F45CAAAA36B11E3A3DF8D90DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search