1 option
Ezili's mirrors : imagining Black queer genders / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley.
Loaned to Another Library HQ1075.5.H2 T567 2018
By Request
Log in to request item- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha, 1971- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gender identity--Haiti.
- Gender identity.
- Black people--Sexual behavior--Haiti.
- Black people.
- Legends--Haiti.
- Legends.
- Feminism.
- Homosexuality.
- Queer theory.
- African diaspora in art.
- Black people--Sexual behavior.
- Haiti.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- From the dagger mistress Ezili Je Wouj and the gender-bending mermaid Lasiren to the beautiful femme queen Ezili Freda, the Ezili pantheon of Vodoun spirits represents the divine forces of love, sexuality, prosperity, pleasure, maternity, creativity, and fertility. And just as Ezili appears in different guises and characters, so too does Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley in her voice- and genre-shifting, exploratory book Ezili's Mirrors. Drawing on her background as a literary critic as well as her quest to learn the lessons of her spiritual ancestors, Tinsley theorizes black Atlantic sexuality by tracing how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers and performers evoke Ezili. Tinsley shows how Ezili is manifest in the work and personal lives of singers Whitney Houston and Azealia Banks, novelists Nalo Hopkinson and Ana-Maurine Lara, performers MilDred Gerestant and Sharon Bridgforth, and filmmakers Anne Lescot and Laurence Magioire-none of whom identify as Vodou practitioners. In so doing, Tinsley offers a model of queer black feminist theory that creates new possibilities for decolonizing queer studies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Bridge: read this book like a song
- Introduction: for the love of laveau
- Bridge: a black cisfemme is a beautiful thing
- To transcender transgender
- Bridge: sissy werk
- Mache Ansanm
- Bridge: my femdom, my love
- Riding the red
- Bridge: for the party girls
- It's a party
- Bridge: Baía and Marigo
- Arties's song.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-240) and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Tinsley, Omise'eke Natasha, 1971- Ezili's mirrors.
- ISBN:
- 9780822370307
- 0822370301
- 9780822370383
- 0822370387
- OCLC:
- 1013518945
- Publisher Number:
- 40027999795
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.