Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay's Narratives of Transracial Desire
Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay's Narratives of Transracial Desire
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Los Angeles, CA: SAGE Publications
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This article explores the threat posed by the Afro-Asian body in Claude McKay's novels, Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). Banjo's narrative of transracial alliances converges onto the body of the Afro-Asian prostitute, whose positioning as a "conjunction" exposes contradictions surrounding immigration within French liberalism. Banana Bottom al...
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Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay's Narratives of Transracial Desire
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TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1551000066
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_miscellaneous_1551000066
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0021-9347
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1552-4566
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10.1177/0021934713507579
