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Author:

Williams, Erika Renée, 1973- author.

Title:

Tales from Du Bois : the queer intimacy of cross-caste romance / Erika Renée Williams.

Publisher:

State University of New York Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xii, 164 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Du Bois, W. E. B.--(William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963--Criticism and interpretation.
Du Bois, W. E. B.--(William Edward Burghardt),--1868-1963.
Interracial couples in literature.
Caste in literature.
Caste in literature.
Interracial couples in literature.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.
Critiques littéraires.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 145-152) and index.

Contents:

Introduction: On Double Consciousness as the Failure of Cross-Caste Romance : Du Bois's Nationalism Re- and De- formed -- 1. A Hymn of Faith Is a Tale of Love : Lohengrin and Platonic Romance in Du Bois's "Of the Coming of John" -- 2. The Queer Gift of Black Folk : Reading Double Consciousness in Du Bois's Detective Fiction -- 3. A Romance of Refusal : Failed Intimacy and Black Fugitivity in "The Princess of the Hither Isles" -- 4. Crossing Caste and Queering Kinship : Du Bois's Utopian Afro-Asiatic Romance -- Epilogue: Strange Intimacies : On Exogamy and Endogamy in the Cross-Caste Romance.

Summary:

"Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

SUNY series in multiethnic literatures

ISBN:

1438488181
9781438488189
143848819X
9781438488196

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1265456365

LCCN:

2021036173

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)