Feminity and Non Feminity in Ernest Gaines’ of Love and Dust

Abstract

Nowadays, sexual identity has become in hot issues. In social institutions, there debates about what should be the right attitudes to have toward queers and homosexuality. In literature, some characters are sometimes pictured as deviant, as persons who are questioning whether if they are men or women. In our article, we are using Ernest Gaines’s Of Love and Dust as a corpus and the tools of postmodernism and feminism to get insight in how the notions of feminity and Non feminity were viewed shortly, after the Emancipation period in the American Society, when African Americans were still living in the plantations.