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Queering the Color Line de Siobhan B Somerville

Queering the Color Line

Autor Siobhan B Somerville
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 13 ian 2000

În Queering the Color Line, Siobhan B Somerville propune o reevaluare radicală a modului în care s-au cristalizat categoriile de identitate sexuală în Statele Unite. Observăm că teza centrală a volumului nu tratează rasa și sexualitatea ca axe paralele, ci ca procese de producție culturală profund interdependente. Considerăm esențială perspectiva autoarei asupra anului 1896: în timp ce decizia Curții Supreme în cazul Plessy v. Ferguson oficializa segregarea rasială, discursul public era simultan captivat de noi definiții ale 'inversiunii sexuale'. Din punct de vedere al structurii, volumul debutează cu o analiză a rasismului științific, demonstrând cum modelele biologice folosite pentru a clasifica rasele au oferit vocabularul necesar pentru inventarea 'corpului homosexual'. Progresia narativă ne poartă apoi prin analiza filmului mut și a literaturii semnate de Pauline E. Hopkins sau Jean Toomer. Queering the Color Line este comparabil cu Anachronism and Its Others de Valerie Rohy în rigurozitate, dar se distinge prin ancorarea specifică în contextul istoric al sistemului Jim Crow și prin modul în care analizează textele sexologice ale lui Havelock Ellis. Această lucrare completează contribuțiile anterioare ale autoarei, precum cele din The Cambridge Companion to Queer Studies, unde Siobhan B Somerville a explorat criticile 'queer of color'. Dacă în lucrările colective abordarea era una de ansamblu, aici investigația arhivistică oferă o profunzime istorică necesară pentru a înțelege cum 'devianța' a fost construită social pentru a întări granițele rasiale. Este o resursă academică densă, scrisă într-un limbaj specializat, care reușește să demonstreze că istoria sexualității în America este, în mod intrinsec, și o istorie a rasei.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780822324430
ISBN-10: 0822324431
Pagini: 272
Ilustrații: 6 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 228 x 21 mm
Greutate: 0.4 kg
Editura: Duke University Press

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Queering the Color Line transforms previous understandings of how homosexuality was invented as a category of identity in the United States beginning in the late nineteenth century. Analysing a range of sources, including sexology texts, early cinema, and African American literature, Siobhan B. Somerville argues that the emerging understanding of homosexuality depended on the context of the black/white "colour line," the dominant system of racial distinction during this period. This book thus critiques and revises tendencies to treat race and sexuality as unrelated categories of analysis, showing instead that race has historically been central to the cultural production of homosexuality. At about the same time that the 1896 Supreme Court Plessy v. Ferguson decision hardened the racialised boundary between black and white, prominent trials were drawing the public's attention to emerging categories of sexual identity. Somerville argues that these concurrent developments were not merely parallel but in fact inextricably interrelated and that the discourses of racial and sexual "deviance" were used to reinforce each other's terms. She provides original readings of such texts as Havelock Ellis's late nineteenth-century work on "sexual inversion," the 1914 film A Florida Enchantment, the novels of Pauline E. Hopkins, James Weldon Johnson's Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man, and Jean Toomer's fiction and autobiographical writings, including Cane. Through her analyses of these texts and her archival research, Somerville contributes to the growing body of scholarship that focuses on discovering the intersections of gender, race, and sexuality. Queering the Color Line will have broad appeal across disciplines including African American studies, gay and lesbian studies, literary criticism, cultural studies, cinema studies, and gender studies.

Recenzii

"By offering a new understanding of the emergence of race and sexuality as collaborative entities, Somerville has made an important contribution to the expanding scholarship in African American studies, American studies, queer theory, and cultural studies."--Robyn Wiegman, author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender

"This book pioneers new strategies for understanding the intersectionality of sexuality and race formation. Equally adept at textual analysis and historical contextualisation, Somerville demonstrates how the early sexological division of people into homosexuals and heterosexuals was profoundly shaped by the discourse of scientific racism, and she elaborates her argument through a series of subtle reinterpretations of cinematic and literary texts that illuminate the profound--usually inexplicit--interdependence of racial and sexual discourse. A path-breaking study."--George Chauncey, University of Chicago

"Queering the Color Line is a groundbreaking study that sets a new agenda for critical investigations of the intersecting histories of race and sexuality in the United States. Siobhan Somerville provides a model of interdisciplinary, politically engaged scholarship that is certain to become required reading in queer studies, race theory, and U.S. history as well as American literature."--Lisa Duggan, New York University

“No discussion of the way queer theory and ethnic studies enhance each other would be complete without mentioning Siobhan B. Somerville’s groundbreaking 2000 book, Queering the Color Line -- considered the first salvo in the developing field of race and sexuality studies.”—Robert Reid-Pharr, The Chronicle Review


"By offering a new understanding of the emergence of race and sexuality as collaborative entities, Somerville has made an important contribution to the expanding scholarship in African American studies, American studies, queer theory, and cultural studies."--Robyn Wiegman, author of American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender "This book pioneers new strategies for understanding the intersectionality of sexuality and race formation. Equally adept at textual analysis and historical contextualisation, Somerville demonstrates how the early sexological division of people into homosexuals and heterosexuals was profoundly shaped by the discourse of scientific racism, and she elaborates her argument through a series of subtle reinterpretations of cinematic and literary texts that illuminate the profound--usually inexplicit--interdependence of racial and sexual discourse. A path-breaking study."--George Chauncey, University of Chicago "Queering the Color Line is a groundbreaking study that sets a new agenda for critical investigations of the intersecting histories of race and sexuality in the United States. Siobhan Somerville provides a model of interdisciplinary, politically engaged scholarship that is certain to become required reading in queer studies, race theory, and U.S. history as well as American literature."--Lisa Duggan, New York University "No discussion of the way queer theory and ethnic studies enhance each other would be complete without mentioning Siobhan B. Somerville's groundbreaking 2000 book, Queering the Color Line -- considered the first salvo in the developing field of race and sexuality studies." - Robert Reid-Pharr, The Chronicle Review

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""Queering the Color Line "is a groundbreaking study that sets a new agenda for critical investigations of the intersecting histories of race and sexuality in the United States. Siobhan Somerville provides a model of interdisciplinary, politically engaged scholarship that is certain to become required reading in queer studies, race theory, and U.S. history as well as American literature."--Lisa Duggan, New York University

Cuprins

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Scientific Racism and the Invention of the Homosexual Body 15
2. The Queer Career of Jim Crow: Racial and Sexual Transformation in Early Cinema 39
3. Inverting the Tragic Mulatta Tradition: Race and Homosexuality in Pauline E. Hopkins’s Fiction 77
4. Double Lives on the Color Line: “Perverse” Desire in The Autobiography of an Ex-Coloured Man 111
5. “Queer to Myself As I Am to You”: Jean Toomer, Racial Disidentification, and Queer Reading 131
Conclusion 166
Appendix 177
Notes 181
Bibliography 221
Index 249

Descriere

The interconnected constructions of race and sexuality at the turn of the century.