The Queer Limit of Black Memory Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution /
Matt Richardson.
- 1 online resource (256 p.)
- Black performance and cultural criticism .
- Black performance and cultural criticism. Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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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. 1974- --Criticism and interpretation. Gomez, Jewelle, 1948- --Criticism and interpretation.
Blacks in literature. Lesbianism in literature. Lesbians in literature.