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The poetics of difference : queer feminist forms in the African diaspora / Mecca Jamilah Sullivan.

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"Contemporary black women writers of the African Diaspora have developed rich, nuanced, and complex literary forms through which to explore social, political, and erotic experience. Since the height of the post-civil rights and decolonialization movements of the late-twentieth century, black wo...

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Main Author: Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2021]
Series:New Black studies series.
Subjects:
African literature (English) > Black authors > History and criticism.
African literature (English) > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Literature, Experimental > 20th century > History and criticism.
Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
African diaspora in literature.
Women, Black, in literature.
Feminism and literature.
Queer theory.
African literature (English) > Black authors.
African literature (English) > Women authors.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > Women authors.
Literature, Experimental.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Black queer feminist poetics : rereading the intersection
  • Biomythic times : voice, genre, and the invention of Black/queer history
  • "Walkin on the edges of the galaxy" : queer choreopoetic thought in the African diaspora
  • Feeling colors and seeing speech : body/language and Black women's diasporas of difference
  • "Languages of love," "TALK" of Sex : interstitial idioms of body and desire
  • Speech between silence : distance, difference, and the queer poetics of Black woman living.

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