Obscene Gestures: Counter-Narratives of Sex and Race in the Twentieth Century

by Patrick Lawrence

Drawing on sources as diverse as Supreme Court decisions, nightclub comedy, congressional records, and cultural theory, Obscene Gestures explores the many contradictory vectors of twentieth-century moralist controversies surrounding literary and artistic works from Henry Miller's Tropic of Cancer to those of Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Kathy Acker, Robert Mapplethorpe, 2 Live Crew, Tony Kushner, and others. Patrick S. Lawrence dives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1531500080
• ISBN13: 9781531500085
• Release Date: June 2022
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"