Title The queer limit of Black memory : Black lesbian literature and irresolution / Matt Richardson

Published Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) Series Black performance and cultural criticism Black performance and cultural criticism. Contents 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 Summary This book identifies an archive of Black women’s literature that has heretofore been on the margins of literary scholarship and African diaspora cultural criticism. It argues that Black lesbian texts celebrate both the strategies of resistance used by queer Black subjects and the spaces for grieving the loss of queer Black subjects that dominant histories of the African diasporas often forget. The author has gathered an understudied archive of texts by LaShonda Barnett, S. Diane Adamz-Bogus, Dionne Brand, Sharon Bridgforth, Laurinda D. Brown, Jewelle Gomez, Jackie Kay, and Cherry Muhanji in order to relocate the queerness of Black diasporic vernacular traditions, including drag or gender performance, blues, jazz, and West African spiritual and religious practices Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Brand, Dionne, 1953- -- Criticism and interpretation Kay, Jackie, 1961- -- Criticism and interpretation Bridgforth, Sharon -- Criticism and interpretation Muhanji, Cherry -- Criticism and interpretation Brown, Laurinda D. -- Criticism and interpretation Bogus, SDiane -- Criticism and interpretation Barnett, LaShonda K. (LaShonda Katrice), 1974- -- Criticism and interpretation Gomez, Jewelle, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation Brand, Dionne, 1953- -- Criticism and interpretation Kay, Jackie, 1961- -- Criticism and interpretation Bridgforth, Sharon -- Criticism and interpretation Muhanji, Cherry -- Criticism and interpretation Brown, Laurinda D. -- Criticism and interpretation Adamz-Bogus, SDiane, 1946- -- Criticism and interpretation Barnett, LaShonda K. (LaShonda Katrice), 1974- -- Criticism and interpretation Gomez, Jewelle, 1948- -- Criticism and interpretation Bogus, SDiane Barnett, LaShonda K. (LaShonda Katrice), 1974- Brand, Dionne, 1953- Gomez, Jewelle, 1948- Kay, Jackie, 1961- Black people in literature Lesbianism in literature. Lesbians in literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Black people in literature Lesbianism in literature Lesbians in literature Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book LC no. 2012050159 ISBN 0814270174 0814293239 9780814293232 9780814270172

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