Black Queer Flesh: Rejecting Subjectivity in the African American Novel

A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity

Black Queer Flesh reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism to contemporary literature, showing how authors have imagined a new model of black queer selfhood. African American authors blame liberal humanism’s model of subjectivity for double consciousness and find that liberal humanism’s celebration ...