Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction: Against the Closet Racial Logic and the Bodily Basis/Biases of Sexual Identity 1
5. 1. ‘‘The Strangest Freaks of Despotism’’. Queer Sexuality in Antebellum African American Slave Narratives 25
6. 2. Iconographies of Gang Rape. Or, Black Enfranchisement, White Disavowal, and the (Homo)erotics of Lynching 51
7. 3. Desire and Treason in Mid-Twentieth-Century Political Protest Fiction 82
8. 4. Recovering the Little Black Girl. Incest and Black American Textuality 114
9. Conclusion: In Memoriam Michael Jackson, 1958–2009 151
10. Notes 157
11. Works Cited 181
12. Index 193