Table of Contents:
  • Invisible desires: homoerotic racism and its homophobic critique in Invisible Man
  • Blueprints for negro manhood: Ellison and the vernacular
  • The legacy of Fu Manchu: Orientalist desire and the figure of the Asian "homosexual"
  • "Shells of the dead": the melancholy of masculine desire
  • The fantasy of a yellow vernacular: mimetic hunger and the "chameleon Chinaman".