ABSTRACT
This 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 CONTENTS
chapter |13 pages
Chapter One Introduction
chapter |26 pages
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