Contents:
  • Freaks with a voice
  • Truman Capote, William Goyen, and the gendering of male homosexuality
  • Richard Wright and compulsory Black male heterosexuality
  • Lillian Smith and the scripting of lesbian desire
  • Harper Lee and the destabilization of heterosexuality
  • Carson McCullers and gay/lesbian (non) representation
  • Epilogue : other voices, other rooms.