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100 1 $aBibler, Michael P.,$d1971-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2006075785
245 10 $aCotton's queer relations :$bsame-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968 /$cMichael P. Bibler.
260 $aCharlottesville :$bUniversity of Virginia Press,$c2009.
300 $ax, 298 pages ;$c23 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [269]-288) and index.
505 00 $tIntroduction: In the Kitchens and on the Verandas -- $g1.$tNation and Plantation between Gone with the Wind and Black Power: The Example of Ernest J. Gaines's Of Love and Dust -- $gPt. 1.$tPlanters and Lovers -- $g2.$tIntraracial Homoeroticism and the Loopholes of Taboo in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! -- $g3.$tHomo-ness and Fluidity in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof -- $gPt. 2.$tThe Southern Kitchen Romance -- $g4.$tA Queer Sense of Justice in Lillian Hellman's Dramas of the Hubbard Family -- $g5.$tKatherine Anne Porter, Margaret Walker, and the Uncomfortable Compromise of Black Women's Autonomy -- $gPt. 3.$tThe Queer Black Fraternity -- $g6.$tSex, Community, and Rebellion in William Styron's The Confessions of Nat Turner -- $g7.$tArna Bontemps's Black Thunder: Between Masculine Politics and Feminine Difference -- $tConclusion: On the Southern Plantation, Real Love Is Always Ambivalent.
520 1 $a"Finally breaking through heterosexual clichis of flirtatious belles and cavaliers, sinister black rapists and lusty "Jezebels,"Cotton's Queer Relations exposes the queer dynamics embedded in myths of the southern plantation. Focusing on works by Ernest J. Gaines, William Faulkner, Tennessee Williams, Lillian Hellman, Katherine Anne Porter, Margaret Walker, William Styron, and Arna Bontemps, Michael P. Bibler shows how each one uses figures of same-sex intimacy to suggest a more progressive alternative to the pervasive inequalities tied historically and symbolically to the South's most iconic institution." "Bibler looks specifically at relationships between white men of the planter class, between plantation mistresses and black maids, and between black men, arguing that while the texts portray the plantation as a rigid hierarchy of differences, these queer relations privilege a notion of sexual sameness that joins the individuals as equals in a system where equality is rare indeed. Bibler reveals how these models of queer egalitarianism attempt to reconcile the plantation's regional legacies with national debates about equality and democracy, particularly during the eras of the New Deal, World War II, and the civil rights movement. Cotton's Queer Relations charts bold new territory in southern studies and queer studies alike, bringing together history and cultural theory to offer innovative readings of classic southern texts."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101034
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100687
650 0 $aHomosexuality and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008121834
650 0 $aHomosexuality in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85061792
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85002009
650 0 $aRace relations in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008444
650 0 $aPlantation life in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008259
650 0 $aSocial change in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94008623
852 00 $bglx$hPS374.H63$iB52 2009
852 00 $bbar$hPS374.H63$iB52 2009