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• W2036006474 abstract "Readers familiar with Randall Kenan's fictional works, A Visitation of Spirits (1989) and Let the Dead Bury Their Dead (1992), will recognize in them a prominent concern with community and familial relations that engages questions of difference, both racial and sexual. In the former work, Kenan foregrounds the small North Carolina community of Tims Creek that boasts a history of community survival that goes back to the days of slavery. Yet the trauma of its slave past appears to undermine the prosperity of its present inhabitants. Possessed of a world view that is basically fundamentalist and separatist, the community has attributed its survival to the rigid maintenance of patriarchal family structures, stable racial identities, and normative sexual desires. Yet, as Kenan is intent on showing, such control—often imaged in tropes of spatiality—is unrealistic, unworkable, and only serves to underscore the permeability of all borders, whether communal, bodily, or psychic. Centered on the Cross family, and especially on sixteen-year-old Horace, who is gay, A Visitation of Spirits details his suicide and raises troubling questions relative not only to the emergence of queer desire within the community's perimeters, but also to its own complicity in Horace's death. 1 However, as the Cross family situation exemplifies, racial identities tend to be [End Page 306] acted out in terms of religious and familial structures of power that introduce challenges to the stability of all boundaries—bodily, familial, communal, and racial; it is this instability that is the source of the novel's multiple visitations. Although these visitations appear to describe Horace's evocation of demons during his hallucinatory last hours, other members of the Cross family seem similarly troubled by incursions of an authority that also has its grounding in the abject. Neither the community, with its Christianized institutions, nor the Crosses, with their patriarchal and heterosexist forms of familial containment, can escape this particularly problematic visitation which, to use Kristeva's metaphoric language, always escapes from its place of banishment and does not cease challenging its master (2). 2" @default.
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• W2036006474 title "Gay Identity, Conjure, and the Uses of Postmodern Ethnography in the Fictions of Randall Kenan" @default.
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