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