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Reading Boddo's Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman's "Half-Breed"

Author: Thomas C Gannon

  • Reading Boddo's Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman's "Half-Breed"

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    Reading Boddo's Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman's "Half-Breed"

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Offers an extended cultural reading of Whitman's early story "The Half-Breed," focusing on psychosexual and post-colonial implications of the story in the context of Whitman's career, and examining Whitman's half-breed character Boddo as a racial and sexual "border figure."

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Gannon, T. C., (2004) “Reading Boddo's Body: Crossing the Borders of Race and Sexuality in Whitman's "Half-Breed"”, Walt Whitman Quarterly Review 22(2/3), 87-107. doi: https://doi.org/10.13008/2153-3695.1757

Rights: Copyright © 2004 Thomas C Gannon

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Published on
01 Oct 2004
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