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Ambitious, yet concise, Obscene Gestures provides a compelling reading of various cases of so-called obscenity and their changing relationship to definitional political and legal struggles in the twentieth century. Offering a groundbreaking discussion of race and sexuality and how obscenity is treated in relationship to both, Lawrence intervenes in discourse of avant-garde genius and transgression that is too often coded as white.---Christopher Breu, author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics

Ambitious, yet concise, Obscene Gestures provides a compelling reading of various cases of so-called obscenity and their changing relationship to definitional political and legal struggles in the twentieth century. Offering a groundbreaking discussion of race and sexuality and how obscenity is treated in relationship to both, Lawrence intervenes in discourse of avant-garde genius and transgression that is too often coded as white.---Christopher Breu, author of Insistence of the Material: Literature in the Age of Biopolitics,

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Patrick S. Lawrence is Associate Professor of English at the University of South Carolina, Lancaster.

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