Cotton's queer relations : same-sex intimacy and the literature of the southern plantation, 1936-1968 / Michael P. Bibler.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bibler, Michael P., 1971-
Language:English
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2009.
Subjects:
American fiction > Southern States > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Homosexuality and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Homosexuality in literature.
African Americans in literature.
Race relations in literature.
Plantation life in literature.
Social change in literature.
Physical Description:x, 298 pages ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Introduction: 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.