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Territories of the soul : queered belonging in the Black diaspora / Nadia Ellis.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ellis, Nadia, 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Caribbean literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
- Caribbean literature.
- Queer theory.
- African diaspora.
- Group identity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- <div>Nadia Ellis theorizes the experience of belonging to the African diaspora as living within the space between the land and the soul. She uses a utopian concept of queerness and analyses of African American and Caribbean writers, musicians, and artists to show how diaspora is a mode of feeling and belonging.</div>
- Contents:
- Introduction : the queer elsewhere of Black diaspora
- The attachments of C.L.R. James
- The fraternal agonies of Baldwin and Lamming
- Andrew Salkey and the queer diasporic
- Burning Spear and Nathaniel Mackey at large
- Epilogue : dancehall's urban possession.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375104
- 0822375109
- OCLC:
- 1139367607
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