Religio-erotic Experience and Transoceanic Becoming at the Shoreline in Audre Lorde’s Zami

Abstract In her biomythographical work Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde’s lover Afrekete appears as a Black queer femme who alters her sense of self and her being through religio-erotic experience. After tracing the spirit who inspired Lorde’s Afrekete throughout the Americas, I propose...

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Published inJournal of the American Academy of Religion Vol. 91; no. 3; pp. 680 - 697
Main Author Coleman Taylor, Ashley
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published US Oxford University Press 30.12.2023
Oxford Publishing Limited (England)
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Summary:Abstract In her biomythographical work Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, Audre Lorde’s lover Afrekete appears as a Black queer femme who alters her sense of self and her being through religio-erotic experience. After tracing the spirit who inspired Lorde’s Afrekete throughout the Americas, I propose a theory of the shoreline as a site of transoceanic becoming, or the experience of self-identification required to navigate the Western world as an African diaspora being. I focus primarily on the ontologies of Black trans and queer femmes and the unconscious yet necessary process of becoming at the intersections of existence.
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ISSN:0002-7189
1477-4585
DOI:10.1093/jaarel/lfae020