philosophical performances of racial and sexual freedom /
Sarah Jane Cervenak.
London :
Duke University Press,
2014.
xi, 220 pages :
illustrations ;
23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-207) and index.
Losing their heads : race, sexuality, and the perverse moves of the European Enlightenment -- Crooked ways and weak pens : the enactment of Enlightenment against slavery -- Writing under a spell : Adrienne Kennedy's theater -- "I am an African American novel" : wandering as noncompliance in Gayl Jones's Mosquito -- Conclusion: "Before I was straightened out."