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Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic

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Description for Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic Paperback. A provocative triptych of black queer desire, articulated through aesthetic works and experiences Series: The New Black Studies Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 29 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; ABA; APF; JFCA; JFSK2; JFSL3. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 21. Weight in Grams: 482.
Queer Pollen discusses three notable black queer twentieth century artists--painter and writer Richard Bruce Nugent, author James Baldwin, and filmmaker Marlon Riggs--and the unique ways they turned to various media to work through their experiences living as queer black men. David A. Gerstner elucidates the complexities in expressing queer black desire through traditional art forms such as painting, poetry, and literary prose, or in the industrial medium of cinema. This challenge is made particularly sharp when the terms "black" and "homosexuality" come freighted with white ideological conceptualizations. Gerstner adroitly demonstrates how Nugent, Baldwin, and Riggs interrogated the seductive power and saturation ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Series
The New Black Studies Series
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252077876
SKU
V9780252077876
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About David A. Gerstner
David A. Gerstner is a professor of cinema studies at the City University of New York Graduate Center and the College of Staten Island. His other books include Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema.

Reviews for Queer Pollen: White Seduction, Black Male Homosexuality, and the Cinematic
A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2012. "Gerstner is a master theorist who renders a compelling and cutting-edge narrative about the complexity of black homosexual desire. The first book of its kind to specifically address the formation of black queer subjectivity in relation to white seduction, Queer Pollen offers a major contribution to African American studies, gender studies, film ... Read more

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