{"id":34250,"date":"2013-11-01T00:54:12","date_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34250"},"modified":"2013-11-01T00:57:51","modified_gmt":"2013-11-01T00:57:51","slug":"subjecting-pleasure-claude-mckay%e2%80%99s-narratives-of-transracial-desire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34250","title":{"rendered":"Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay\u2019s Narratives of Transracial Desire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/10\/09\/0021934713507579.abstract\" target=\"_blank\">Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay\u2019s Narratives of Transracial Desire<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Black Studies<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/content\/44\/7.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 44, Number 7<\/a> (October 2013)<br \/>\npages 706-724<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0021934713507579\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0021934713507579<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/huminst.las.uic.edu\/ifth\/people\/institute-fellows\/2012-2013\/smita-das\" target=\"_blank\">Smita Das<\/a><\/strong>, 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow<br \/>\n<em>University of Illinois, Chicago<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article explores the threat posed by the Afro-Asian body in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claude_McKay\" target=\"_blank\">Claude McKay\u2019s<\/a> novels, <em>Banjo<\/em> (1929) and <em>Banana Bottom<\/em> (1933). <em>Banjo\u2019s <\/em>narrative of transracial alliances converges onto the body of the Afro-Asian prostitute, whose positioning as a \u201cconjunction\u201d exposes contradictions surrounding immigration within French liberalism. <em>Banana Bottom<\/em> also maps a conflictual relationship between a licentious Afro-Asian <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Coolie\" target=\"_blank\">coolie<\/a> woman, and a Black subject who both wrestle with attaining national belonging within an idyllic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jamaica\" target=\"_blank\">Jamaica<\/a>. While <em>Banjo<\/em> reveals McKay\u2019s yearnings for transnational Black affiliations without the Afro-Asian woman, <em>Banana Bottom<\/em> reconciles the wrought relations between Black middle-class Jamaicans and the bastardized \u201ccoolie gal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/jbs.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2013\/10\/09\/0021934713507579.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subjecting Pleasure: Claude McKay\u2019s Narratives of Transracial Desire Journal of Black Studies Volume 44, Number 7 (October 2013) pages 706-724 DOI: 10.1177\/0021934713507579 Smita Das, 2012-2013 Dissertation Fellow University of Illinois, Chicago This article explores the threat posed by the Afro-Asian body in Claude McKay\u2019s novels, Banjo (1929) and Banana Bottom (1933). Banjo\u2019s narrative of transracial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,1196,8],"tags":[3489,102,16091],"class_list":["post-34250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-latincarib","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","tag-claude-mckay","tag-journal-of-black-studies","tag-smita-das"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}