Lost in Space No Longer: The Visionary Union of 'The Wire'

<p>In its serial space, David Simon’s <em>The Wire</em> 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. <em>The Wire’s </em>serialized narrative trespasses the limitations of money and numbers games and of individual characters to build, scene by scene, what Roderick Ferguson calls in <em>Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique</em> “the location for new and emergent identifications and social relations” (108).</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

M.A.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Year

2012

Author dc:creator

• Dupré, Brett

Contributors dc:contributor

• Doreen Piano
• Renia Ehrenfeucht
• Elizabeth Steeby

• Television Studies
• The Wire
• Labor Unions
• Sex Trade
• Serial Narrative
• Social Space
• American Studies
• English Language and Literature
• Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
• Film and Media Studies
• Television
• Urban Studies and Planning

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1433

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-2502