Williams Tales from Du Bois

The Queer Intimacy of Cross-Caste Romance
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4384-8820-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 176 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures

Offers a new framework for understanding Du Bois's poetics and politics, including the concept of double consciousness, by tracing the trope of the cross-caste romance across his fiction.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Williams, Erika Renée

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: On Double Consciousness as the Failure of Cross-Caste Romance: Du Bois's Nationalism Re- and De- formed

1. A Hymn of Faith Is a Tale of Love: Lohengrin and Platonic Romance in Du Bois's "Of the Coming of John"

2. The Queer Gift of Black Folk: Reading Double Consciousness in Du Bois's Detective Fiction

3. A Romance of Refusal: Failed Intimacy and Black Fugitivity in "The Princess of the Hither Isles"

4. Crossing Caste and Queering Kinship: Du Bois's Utopian Afro-Asiatic Romance

Epilogue: Strange Intimacies: On Exogamy and Endogamy in the Cross-Caste Romance

Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Erika Renée Williams is Associate Professor of English and Africana Studies at the University of Connecticut.