A01=Stefanie K. Dunning
Author_Stefanie K. Dunning
Category=JBSJ
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Cultural Studies
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Ethnic
Gender
LGBT
Social and Cultural Theory
Product details
- ISBN 9780253221094
- Weight: 186g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 12 May 2009
- Publisher: Indiana University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book analyzes representative works of African American fiction, film, and music in which interracial desire appears in the context of same sex desire. In close readings of these "texts," Stefanie K. Dunning explores the ways in which the interracial intersects with queerness, blackness, whiteness, class, and black national identity. She shows that representations of interracial desire do not follow the logic of racial exclusion. Instead they are metaphorical and anti-biological. Rather than diluting race, interracial desire makes race visible. By invoking the interracial, black gay and lesbian artists can remake our conception of blackness.
Stefanie K. Dunning is Associate Professor of English at Miami University of Ohio.
