The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

Introduction : listening to the archives : Black lesbian literature and queer memory -- Desirous mistresses and unruly slaves : neo-slave narratives, property, power, and desire -- Small movements : queer blues epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her -- "Mens womens some that is both some t...

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Main Author Richardson, Matt
Format eBook Book
LanguageEnglish
Published Chicago The Ohio State University Press 2013
Ohio State University Press
Edition1
SeriesBlack Performance and Cultural Criticism
Subjects
Adamz-Bogus, SDiane, 1946
African American
American
Barnett, LaShonda K., 1975
Blacks in literature
Brand, Dionne, 1953
Bridgforth, Sharon
Brown, Laurinda D
Criticism and interpretation
Gomez, Jewelle, 1948
Kay, Jackie, 1961
Lesbianism in literature
Lesbians in literature
LITERARY CRITICISM
Muhanji, Cherry
Women Authors
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Summary:Introduction : listening to the archives : Black lesbian literature and queer memory -- Desirous mistresses and unruly slaves : neo-slave narratives, property, power, and desire -- Small movements : queer blues epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her -- "Mens womens some that is both some that is neither" : spiritual epistemology and queering the Black rural South in the work of Sharon Bridgforth -- "Make it up and trace it back" : remembering Black trans subjectivity in Jackie Kay's Trumpet -- What grace was : erotic epistemologies and diasporic belonging in Dionne Brand's In another place, not here -- Epilogue : grieving the queer : anti-Black violence and black collective memory
ISBN:9780814212226
0814212220
9780814252901
0814252907