Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature - Couverture souple

Sciuto, Jenna Grace

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496833457 ISBN 13 : 9781496833457

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Synopsis

In Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, author Jenna Grace Sciuto analyzes literary depictions of sexual polic-ing 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 Al-varez, 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 rela-tions 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 colo-nial 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 histo-ries 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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Jenna Grace Sciuto is professor of English at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts. Her work examines the intersections of race, gender, and sexuality in US and global literatures. She is author of Policing Intimacy: Law, Sexuality, and the Color Line in Twentieth-Century Hemispheric American Literature, published by University Press of Mississippi.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496833457
• ISBN 13: 9781496833457
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible