Ezili's Mirrors : Imagining Black Queer Genders / Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages)

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 Lara, performers MilDred Gerestant and Sharon Bridgforth, and filmmakers Anne Lescot and Laurence Magloire—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.

Contents:

Bridge: read this book like a song

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 and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372080

0822372088

OCLC:

1153027448