"We must document ourselves now" : Black lesbian cultural legacies and the politics of self-representation / Stephanie Andrea Allen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allen, Stephanie Andrea, author.

Series:

Digital media, feminist resistance

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African American lesbians--Social conditions--20th century.

African American lesbians.

African American lesbians--Social conditions--21st century.

African American lesbians--In literature.

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

African American lesbians in motion pictures.

Lesbian motion picture producers and directors--United States.

Lesbian motion picture producers and directors.

Lesbian culture--United States.

Lesbian culture.

American literature--African American authors--Publishing.

Publishers and publishing--Social aspects--United States.

Publishers and publishing.

Queer theory.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2026]

Summary:

"Examines Black lesbian literature and film in queer literary and film histories in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries in the United States, analyzing literature, film, Web series, and interviews to demonstrate how representations of Black lesbians, or the lack thereof, were vital to fomenting a Black lesbian cultural canon"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction: "A nonentity in imagination as well as in reality": looking for Black lesbians

"Writin' is fightin'" : Black lesbian literary beginnings

The right to represent : Black lesbians, white lesbian studies, and truth-telling from the margins

After the boom, or feminism killed the lesbian bookseller

She be dykin' : Black lesbian film and the limits of self-representation

Alexander King films and OpenTV : a mini case study

Conclusion: The precarity of Black lesbian and queer publishing and visual media-making

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed July 20, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Allen, Stephanie Andrea "We must document ourselves now"

ISBN:

9780814284964

0814284965

9780814285459

0814285457

OCLC:

1596674197

Publisher Number:

CIPO000392153

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license