Desire and danger in jazz's contact zones -- Queer modernities -- Orienting subjectivities -- Dreaming of Araby -- Academic indiscretions
Summary
Focusing on the representations of distant lands and exotic bodies that filled the nightclubs of Jazz Age New York, Fiona I.B. Ngô shows how U.S. ambitions abroad shaped racial, gendered, and sexual formations at home
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references 231-250) and index