TY - GEN T1 - Policing intimacy : law, sexuality, and the color line in twentieth-century hemispheric American literature A1 - Sciuto, Jenna Grace LA - English PP - Jackson PB - University Press of Mississippi YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1242021806 AB - "In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual policing of the color line across multiple spaces with diverse colonial histories: Mississippi through William Faulkner's work, Louisiana through Ernest Gaines's novels, Haiti through the work of Marie Chauvet and Edwidge Danticat, and the Dominican Republic through writing by Julia Alvarez, Junot Díaz, and Nelly Rosario. This literature exposes the continuing coloniality that links depictions of US democracy with Caribbean dictatorships in the twentieth century, revealing a set of interrelated features characterizing the transformation of colonial forms of racial and sexual control into neocolonial reconfigurations. A result of systemic inequality and large-scale historical events, the patterns explored herein reveal the ways in which private relations can reflect national occurrences and the intimate can be brought under public scrutiny. Acknowledging the widespread effects of racial and sexual policing that persist in current legal, economic, and political infrastructures across the circum-Caribbean can in turn bring to light permutations of resistance to the violent discriminations of the status quo. By drawing on colonial documents, such as early law systems like the 1685 French Code Noir instated in Haiti, the 1724 Code Noir in Louisiana, and the 1865 Black Code in Mississippi, in tandem with examples from twentieth-century literature, Policing Intimacy humanizes the effects of legal histories and leaves space for local particularities. By focusing on literary texts and variances in form and aesthetics, Sciuto demonstrates the necessity of incorporating multiple stories, histories, and traumas into accounts of the past"-- OP - 233 CN - PS374.R32 S35 2021 SN - 9781496833495 SN - 149683349X SN - 9781496833464 SN - 1496833465 SN - 9781496833471 SN - 1496833473 SN - 9781496833488 SN - 1496833481 SN - 9781496833440 SN - 9781496833457 KW - Race discrimination. KW - Sex discrimination. KW - Racism in literature. KW - Sex in literature. KW - Discrimination raciale. KW - Discrimination sexuelle. KW - Racisme dans la littérature. KW - Sexualité dans la littérature. KW - racial discrimination. KW - sex discrimination. KW - Regional. KW - American. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM. KW - Caribbean & Latin American. KW - Women's Studies. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE. KW - Race discrimination KW - Racism in literature KW - Sex discrimination KW - Sex in literature KW - Literary criticism KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques littéraires. ER -