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Title: | Incognitos: Modern Slumming Narratives and the Unmaking of Sexual Identity |
Author(s): | Herring, Terrell Scott |
Doctoral Committee Chair(s): | Tim Dean |
Department / Program: | English |
Discipline: | English |
Degree Granting Institution: | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Degree: | Ph.D. |
Genre: | Dissertation |
Subject(s): | American Studies |
Abstract: | Though the slumming narrative is a minor literary genre that typically uncovers and classifies urban racial-ethnic and sexual "perversions," "Incognitos" contends that some sexually suspect early-twentieth-century writers---white and Black---manipulated its form to avoid sexual exposure and to challenge developing constructions of sexuality in modern America. Through divergent styles, Progressive-era realists such as Jane Addams and Willa Cather, Afro-Modernist bohemians like Wallace Thurman and Richard Bruce Nugent, and transatlantic Anglo-American Modernists such as Carl Van Vechten and Djuna Barnes renovate a genre traditionally dedicated to sexual surveillance and categorization. Together these writers question the value of an identifiable homosexual identity and subculture while they simultaneously confirm and interrogate developing racial-ethnic identities, thereby illuminating how a minor genre has significant cultural ramifications for developing notions of visibility and invisibility in modern U.S. literary public spheres. |
Issue Date: | 2004 |
Type: | Text |
Language: | English |
Description: | 256 p. Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2142/81401 |
Other Identifier(s): | (MiAaPQ)AAI3130934 |
Date Available in IDEALS: | 2015-09-25 |
Date Deposited: | 2004 |
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