@article{oai:kumadai.repo.nii.ac.jp:00026328, author = {永尾, 悟}, journal = {文学部論叢}, month = {Mar}, note = {Racial issues are seldom addressed explicitly in the plays of Tennessee Williams in comparison with those of other writers from the American South. Although black characters do not often appear in his dramatic world, Williams' many white characters, including Val Xavier in Orpheus Descending, become the representations of blackness or racial hybridity which manifest themselves as the irreducibly complex intersections of race and sexuality in the South. Focusing on Val Xavier, the attractive stranger in the small Mississippi town of Two River Country, who is finally lynched over the accusation of seducing women, this essay attempts to read his white male body with sexual potency as the representation of racial hybridity. In then argues how the lynching of Val's racialized body functions as a public space in which the lynchers perform their masculine role of removing a sexual/racial threat and display white male superiority.}, pages = {55--64}, title = {人種とセクシュアリティの越境 : 『地獄のオルフェウス』における南部と身体}, volume = {103}, year = {2012} }