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A Genealogy of Black Male Sexuality and Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters

  • 인문논총
  • 2017, 42(), pp.61-80
  • Publisher : Institute for Human studies, Kyungnam University
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Published : February 28, 2017

KANGYL KO 1

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ABSTRACT

Exploring the cross-racialization of bodies of African American and Filipino American men in the first half of the twentieth-century United States, this essay first examines American modern history in which both ethnic groups were culturally stigmatized as sexually deviant. I also consider how ethnic male authors examine such racist discursive strategies. In doing so, the present study critiques heteronormative impulse and homophobic repulsion embedded in the masculinist anti-racist cultural politics advanced by Fanon, Du Bois, and Bulosan. This essay then addresses Jessica Hagedorn’s Dogeaters (1990), written in the late twentieth century, in order to explore how white racist discourses such as lynching narrative have been adapted and applied to global culture in the postmodern era. My discussion of Hagedorn’s novel also explores the way the author interrogates masculinist bias of anti-racist cultural politics.

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