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001 2008038346
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008 080908s2009 vau b s001 0 eng
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020 $a9780813927916 (cloth : alk. paper)
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050 00 $aPS374.H63$bB52 2009
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100 1 $aBibler, Michael P.,$d1971-
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.
263 $a0903
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction: in the kitchens and on the verandas -- Nation and plantation between Gone with the wind and black power: the example of Ernest J. Gaines's Of love and dust -- Planters and lovers. Intraracial homoeroticism and the loopholes of taboo in William Faulkner's Absalom, Absalom! -- Homo-ness and fluidity in Tennessee Williams's Cat on a hot tin roof -- The southern kitchen romance. A queer sense of justice in Lillian Hellman's dramas of the Hubbard family -- Katherine Anne Porter, Margaret Walker, and the uncomfortable compromise of black women's autonomy -- The queer black fraternity. Sex, community, and rebellion in William Styron's The confessions of Nat Turner -- Arna Bontemps's Black thunder: between masculine politics and feminine difference -- Conclusion: on the southern plantation, real love is always ambivalent.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$zSouthern States$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican fiction$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aHomosexuality and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 0 $aHomosexuality in literature.
650 0 $aAfrican Americans in literature.
650 0 $aRace relations in literature.
650 0 $aPlantation life in literature.
650 0 $aSocial change in literature.