Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century
Author:   Patrick S. Lawrence
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
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9781531500092


Pages:   240
Publication Date:   07 June 2022
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Author:   Patrick S. Lawrence
Publisher:   Fordham University Press
Imprint:   Fordham University Press
ISBN:  

9781531500092


ISBN 10:   1531500099
Pages:   240
Publication Date:   07 June 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Outlaws vs. Outcasts: Defining Narratives of Obscenity | 1 1. Classic Counter-Narratives: Deep Psychology vs. Deep Pathology in Two Early Twentieth-Century Novels | 29 2. Geniuses Abroad, Deviants at Home: Racial Counter-Narratives of the Global and Domestic | 65 3. Porn Wars and Pornotroping: Counter-Narratives of Obscenity amid Transitions in Feminist Activism | 102 4. AIDS Politics Is Local: Narratives of Plague and Place in the Culture Wars | 136 Epilogue | 171 Acknowledgments | 177 Notes | 179 Works Cited | 201 Index | 215

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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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