Aberrations in black : toward a queer of color critique / Roderick A. Ferguson.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Critical American studies series.
Main Author: Ferguson, Roderick A.
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2004], ©2004.
Series:Critical American studies series.
Subjects:
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987. > Go tell it on the mountain.
Wright, Richard, > 1908-1960. > Native son.
Ellison, Ralph. > Invisible man.
Morrison, Toni. > Sula.
American fiction > African American authors > History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Gay people's writings, American > History and criticism.
African American gay people > Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Gay people in literature.
Canon (Literature)
Physical Description:x, 175 pages ; 23 cm.
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction : queer of color critique, historical materialism, and canonical sociology
  • The knee-pants of servility : American modernity, the Chicago school, and Native son
  • The specter of Woodridge : canonical formations and the anticanonical in Invisible man
  • Nightmares of the heteronormative : Go tell it on the mountain versus An American dilemma
  • Something else to be : Sula, the Moynihan report, and the negations of Black lesbian feminism
  • Conclusion : toward the end of normativity.