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Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel

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A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity Black Queer Flesh reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism to contemporary literature, showing how authors have imagined a new model of Black queer selfhood. This book is an original and necessary contribution to Black literary studies, offering new ways to understand and appreciate the canonical texts and far more.

Author(s): Alvin J. Henry
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Year: 2020

Language: English

Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: Rejecting Subjectivity
Chapter 1. Passing into Racial Anxiety
Chapter 2. Nella Larsen and the Emergence of Black Queer Flesh
Chapter 3. Queer Underworlds in Ralph Ellison
Chapter 4. Social Protest and the Aesthetics of Flesh in Richard Wright
Chapter 5. Toward a Black Queer Utopia
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author