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The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution / Matt Richardson.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Richardson, Matt, 1969-
Series:
Black performance and cultural criticism.
Black performance and cultural criticism
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
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.
Black people in literature.
Lesbianism in literature.
Lesbians in literature.
Lesbian literature.
Black lesbians.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (256 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 2013.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women's literature that has heretofore been on the margins of literary scholarship and African diaspora 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.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on print version record.
Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
ISBN:
0-8142-7017-4
OCLC:
867740804
Access Restriction:
Open Access Unrestricted online access

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