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- W233670265 abstract "In Midnight the Garden of Good and Evil (NY: Vintage Books, 1994), character Joe Odom scolds author John Berendt filling his book about Savannah with drag queens and murderers and corpses and bottles of poison and ... voodoo (255). While the author, the tourists, and the inhabitants of Savannah eroticize and foreground its natural beauty to the extent to which the city becomes a depraved female character, they also eroticize and marginalize homosexual and black characters. Women, homosexuals, and African Americans become Others the Berendt's bestseller. The inhabitants control the feminine of their city and exclude individuals such as Chablis and Danny Hansford on account of their race, sexual orientation, and free spirit. In other words, they remain conservative because they gender physical beauty and depravation as female and exclude everything that is not white and heterosexual. Savannah becomes a personified character which participates at the episodic events of the novel. By describing the city as a lustful and appealing woman, its inhabitants and the flaneur author want to attract visitors and readership respectively. Gendered as female, Savannah is 'a beautiful woman with a dirty face' (40, 145). Because the female city declined after 1920, it to be saved from wreckage and destruction. Her body houses [that] fell into disrepair (40), broken windows, and weatherboards unpainted and rotting, shutters falling off, roofs caving in (145). Her architectural beauty, natural lusciousness, and sexual appeal to be restored and preserved by Historical Savannah Foundation. After this rescue from disgrace, female Savannah became 'la plus belle des ville d'Amerique du Nord (332) whose charm was incomparable to other towns. For instance, the two sister cities (167), Charleston and Savannah, differ temperament and physique. Savannah, the seductive and cheerful sister, prefers mundane activities such as parties, fishing, and hunting while Charleston, the intellectual and serious one, pursues a cultural living. As a Hostess City (166), Savannah delights and welcomes tourists who compliment the city for its good looks (332). Wet with alcohol, desire, and excitement, depraved Savannah is presented as the city of drinking and pleasure. The sinful city has also become the murder capital of the United States. Berendt portrays Savannah as a gay city--a joyous and effervescent town--where gays become the victims of murders committed by gays. The homosexual and black inhabitants of Savannah are marginalized and reduced to sexual objects. One marginalized and eroticized homosexual, Danny Hansford, is killed by the prominent and rich bachelor, Jim Williams. The author sees Danny the first time Williams' house where the angry young man shouts and pounds doors. Danny's clothes such as the blue jeans and a sleeveless black T-shirt with the words FUCK YOU printed white across the front (17) are sexy and provocative. Corinne is attracted to his lean, muscular body, his tousled blond hair, and his tattoos (129) and thinks she had found the perfect sexual playmate (138). Both Jim Williams and Corinne use Danny sexual favors. When he is not the sex toy of homosexuals or heterosexuals, Danny is a confused adolescent longing attention. …" @default.
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