Date of Award
Spring 5-2012
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
English
Department
English
Major Professor
Doreen Piano
Second Advisor
Renia Ehrenfeucht
Third Advisor
Elizabeth Steeby
Abstract
In its serial space, David Simon’s The Wire season two relates the seemingly “disconnected” union men, foreign sex worker women, and African-American drug traders and crosses constructed boundaries of race, gender, sexuality, and geography to evoke the possibility of a transnational working class. The Wire’s serialized narrative trespasses the limitations of money and numbers games and of individual characters to build, scene by scene, what Roderick Ferguson calls in Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique “the location for new and emergent identifications and social relations” (108).
Recommended Citation
Dupré, Brett, "Lost in Space No Longer: The Visionary Union of 'The Wire'" (2012). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1433.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1433
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