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- Title
"Will the Big Boys Finally Love You": The Impossibility of Black Male Homoerotic Desire and the Taboo of Balck Homoseuxal Solidarity in Thomas Glave's "Whose Song?"
- Authors
Tettenborn, Éva
- Abstract
Discusses black gay identities in Thomas Glave's short story collection "Whose Song? and Other Stories." Role of a heteronormative and homophobic society as the cause of the trauma inflicted upon the black gay characters portrayed in several of the stories; Portrayal of assaulted black gay masculinities in the story "Whose Song?"; Rape of a woman by three black men in the story.
- Subjects
WHOSE Song? (Book); WHOSE Song? (Short story); GLAVE, Thomas; AFRICAN American men in literature; MASCULINITY in literature; HOMOPHOBIA in literature; RAPE
- Publication
Callaloo, 2003, Vol 26, Issue 3, p855
- ISSN
0161-2492
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/cal.2003.0105