By Thomas McGlamery
This ebook analyzes the paintings of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston along biographical fabrics and discourses at the physique. Thomas McGlamery perspectives each one of those authors' literary output as an attempt to "work via" the political meanings linked to the physique, interpreting how they negotiate identities of sophistication, gender, race, sexuality, and age.
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