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Index Abdur-Rahman, Aliyyah I., 249n1 Absalom, Absalom! (Faulkner), 18, 30, 210; class in, 65, 75, 79, 84, 85, 90–93, 94; and color line, 64, 65, 67, 85, 86–90, 93–95; gender difference in, 64, 65, 69–70, 71, 72–73, 75, 76–79, 81, 89, 93, 94, 260n21; hetero-eroticism in, 76–78; heterosexual miscegenation in, 64, 65, 66–67, 83, 87, 88, 243, 260n23, 260n25; history in, 64, 67–68, 72, 73, 74, 78, 82, 95; homoeroticism in, 63, 64, 68, 69–73, 74, 76, 77, 78, 80, 82, 84, 90, 92, 93, 94, 96, 260n23; homo-ness in, 19, 63, 64–65, 71–74, 75, 77, 81, 82, 83, 85–86, 87, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 97, 258n7; (homo)sexual panic in, 76, 79, 81, 82; and homosexuality, 18, 63–64, 65, 67, 69, 70, 71–73, 76, 79, 81, 84, 87, 88, 91, 93, 94, 95, 96, 123, 258–59n7, 259n11, 260n29, 261n37; homosociality in, 64, 65, 90–93; incest in, 64, 65, 67–68, 73, 76, 77, 83, 87, 88, 91, 260n23, 260n25; and inheritance, 64, 71, 79–81, 91, 96, 260n25; interracial homoeroticism in, 65, 74, 75, 83, 84–89, 90, 91, 93; intraracial homoeroticism in, 65, 75, 90, 91, 92, 93, 94; murder in, 64, 65, 67, 74, 83, 87, 88–89, 96; and postCivil War South, 65, 92–95, 97; and progressive sociality, 18–19, 72, 73, 82, 86, 94, 95, 243; racial indeterminacy in, 65, 71, 75, 83, 87–89, 93–95, 261n38; slaves and slavery in, 65, 75, 81, 84–87, 90–94; taboos in, 64–65, 66, 67, 68, 73, 74, 75, 81, 82, 83, 84, 85, 89, 90–91, 94, 95; white masculinity in 18–19, 63, 65, 75, 79, 81, 85–89, 90–95 Adams, Jessica, 267n1 Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Twain), 100 affection, 19, 33, 35, 41, 84, 86, 116, 127, 128, 129, 134, 141, 150, 152, 156–57, 158, 164, 173, 183, 235, 254n36. See also homo-ness; homosexuality; romantic friendships; same-sex desire; southern kitchen romance agrarians, 50–51, 52, 58, 256n68 agriculture: see plantation agriculture Agricultural Adjustment Administration, 38, 39, 52, 257n74 Aiken, Charles S., 37, 38, 98 ambivalence, 18, 63, 110, 151, 167, 169, 170, 171, 172, 181, 226, 227, 239–40, 241–43, 246, 247, 248 American Psychiatric Association, 183 Anderson, Benedict, 214, 215, 217, 218 Angels in America (Kushner), 238, 239–43, 247, 248 Another Part of the Forest (film), 263n28 Another Part of the Forest (Hellman), 19– 20, 125, 129; apparitional lesbianism in, 136, 141–42, 147–48, 149; black 290 / index 214, 217, 218, 222, 224, 225, 228, 231, 232–33; and homosexuality, 182, 210, 211, 217–18, 219, 223, 225, 228, 233; and homosociality, 182, 211, 219, 222, 223, 228; imagined community in, 214–15, 217–19, 220, 228; marginalization of women in, 21, 182, 219, 222, 228, 229–33, 243; queerness in, 21, 182, 210–11, 214, 219–23, 224, 228, 231, 232–33; reprint of, 59–60, 266n1; and suppression of differences, 21, 182, 211, 216–17, 219–20, 222, 224–225, 229–33, 243. See also queer black fraternity Bogle, Donald, 54 Bontemps, Arna, 3, 9, 20–21, 30, 38, 45, 59, 181, 182, 210–33, 243, 266n1; Drums at Dusk, 225–28, 231; gay friends of, 48, 256n63. See also Black Thunder Boone, Joseph A., 71, 87, 260n25 Boston marriage, 127, 247, 262n4, 262n7. See also apparitional lesbian; lesbians; romantic friendships; southern kitchen romance Bostonians, The (James), 127 Brattain, Michelle, 38 Brehony, Kathleen A., 262n4 Brinkmeyer, Robert H., Jr., 15, 164, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 265n40 Bristow, Joseph, 251n12 Brown, Rita Mae, 132 Busby, Mark, 157 Bush, Rod, 55 Butler, Judith, 16 Byerman, Keith E., 41, 42 Cable, George Washington, 30 Cady, Joseph, 255n56 Camp, Stephanie, 254n32 Campbell, Alan, 263n13 Campbell, Edward D. C., 54 Can’t Quit You, Baby (Douglas), 263n8 Capote, Truman, 46 Case, Sue-Ellen, 141–42 Cash, Wilbur J., 50 Castle, Terry, 126, 132, 136, 141, 157 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Williams): black characters in 97, 104–107, 110, 139; gender fluidity in, 116–119; and heterosexuality, 97, 100, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117, 118–19; homoeroticism in, 96, 103, 113; homo-ness in, 19, women’s subordination in, 20, 137, 139– 40, 144–45, 148–49, 150, 176–77, 216; female mutuality in, 20, 140, 141, 142, 143, 144, 147, 148–49, 150, 176–77, 181, 263n28; and heterosexuality, 143...

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