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Book SynopsisThis book analyzes the work of Herman Melville, John Dos Passos, and Zora Neale Hurston alongside biographical materials and discourses on the body. Thomas McGlamery views each of these authors'' literary output as an effort to work through the political meanings associated with the body, examining how they negotiate identities of class, gender, race, sexuality, and age.
Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgments Chapter One: Introduction Chapter Two: Reading a Man Like a Book: Bodies and Texts in Billy Budd Problems of the Body Body Politics Anxious Readings Embodied Texts and Textualized Bodies Fathers, Sons, Tensions Chapter Three: Producing Remembrance: John Dos Passos's Body in the Text Anatomy and a Mid-Life Crisis Vagabardage The (Un-)American Body Doing the People in Indifferent Voice Remembering the Body of an American A Tramp or a Middle-Class Intellectual-It's as Bad Either Way Chapter Four: How It Feels to Be Not-So-Young, Gifted, and Black: Passing and De change uh Life in Their Eyes Were Watching God Hurston's Novel of Passing De Change uh Life Notes Bibliography Index
