Against the Closet

Against the Closet

Identity, Political Longing, and Black Figuration

by Aliyyah Abdur-Rahman

200 pages· 2012· ISBN 9780822352419
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Aliyyah I. Abdur-Rahman argues that from the mid-nineteenth century through the twentieth, black writers used depictions of transgressive sexuality to express African Americans' longings for individual and collective freedom.

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