Same-Sex Intimacy in Fiction about Southern Plantations

Same-Sex Intimacy in the Fiction of Southern Plantations

Part 2: Bibler refers to Gaines’s novel Of Love and Dust, focusing on how same-sex relations can disrupt plantation hierarchies

Part 3: Bibler explores three frames: queer black fraternity, elite white planter homoeroticism, and “southern kitchen romance”

Part 4: Bibler discusses the plantation and related literary social spaces and describes teaching his work

Michael Bibler received his PhD from Tulane University and is associate professor at Louisiana State University. He is the author of Cotton’s Queer Relations: Same-Sex Intimacy and the Literature of the Southern Plantation, 1936–1968 and the co-editor of a new scholarly edition of Arna Bontemps’s 1939 novel Drums at Dusk and of the collection of essays Just Below South: Intercultural Performance in the Caribbean and the US South.