Tales from Du Bois : the queer intimacy of cross-caste romance /

"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"--

מידע ביבליוגרפי
מחבר ראשי: Williams, Erika Renée, 1973- (Author)
פורמט: Licensed eBooks
שפה:אנגלית
יצא לאור: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2022]
סדרה:SUNY series in multiethnic literature.
גישה מקוונת:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/jj.18253409
תוכן הענינים:
  • Introduction: On double consciousness as the failure of cross-caste romance : Du Bois’s nationalism re- and de-formed
  • A hymn of faith is a tale of love : Lohengrin and platonic romance in Du Bois’s “Of the coming of John”
  • The queer gift of Black folk : reading double consciousness in Du Bois’s detective fiction
  • A romance of refusal : failed intimacy and Black fugitivity in “The princess of the Hither Isles”
  • Crossing caste and queering kinship : Du Bois’s utopian Afro-Asiatic romance
  • Epilogue: Strange intimacies : on exogamy and endogamy in the cross-caste romance.