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Author: Kaitlyn McClung Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic dissertations Languages : en Pages : 0
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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am." 0́3 Sylvia Plath There is power in the "I am." Autonomy. Freedom. Presence. Being. Becoming. These are the elements of the Black African diaspora, especially in the African American literary tradition. Even more powerful is the Black authorial imagination of what these elements could mean for the individual and collective Black queer body within various social, political, religious, homosocial, and queer spaces. I will begin by speculating the origins of Black literary respectability politics and homosocial bonds using Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's historical fiction, The Age of Phillis with hopes of reimagining the possibilities of Black queer historical fiction and literary homosocial spaces. While considering the historical context, I will then shift into the literary imagination of Leroy Jones's The Baptism and the toilet to explore the religious, academic, and patriarchal institutions of Black queer oppression and the subsequent literary rebellion. The essay then shifts to Black quare/queer positionality, analyzing Alexis De Veaux's poetic prose Yabo as a modern nonbinary, genre-bending work of Black queer historical fiction to explore the Black conscious quare body and the flesh through time. To close, I use auto theory in conversation with Saeed Jones's book of poetry Prelude to a Bruise to posit the queer body's positionality in familial spaces. Using the contextualized definitions from the terminology section, these literary analyses and the following discussion use a DuBosian theory of double consciousness to examine positionality and spatiality in hopes of bettering the lives of Black queer readers.
Author: Kaitlyn McClung Publisher: ISBN: Category : Electronic dissertations Languages : en Pages : 0
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"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am." 0́3 Sylvia Plath There is power in the "I am." Autonomy. Freedom. Presence. Being. Becoming. These are the elements of the Black African diaspora, especially in the African American literary tradition. Even more powerful is the Black authorial imagination of what these elements could mean for the individual and collective Black queer body within various social, political, religious, homosocial, and queer spaces. I will begin by speculating the origins of Black literary respectability politics and homosocial bonds using Honoree Fanonne Jeffers's historical fiction, The Age of Phillis with hopes of reimagining the possibilities of Black queer historical fiction and literary homosocial spaces. While considering the historical context, I will then shift into the literary imagination of Leroy Jones's The Baptism and the toilet to explore the religious, academic, and patriarchal institutions of Black queer oppression and the subsequent literary rebellion. The essay then shifts to Black quare/queer positionality, analyzing Alexis De Veaux's poetic prose Yabo as a modern nonbinary, genre-bending work of Black queer historical fiction to explore the Black conscious quare body and the flesh through time. To close, I use auto theory in conversation with Saeed Jones's book of poetry Prelude to a Bruise to posit the queer body's positionality in familial spaces. Using the contextualized definitions from the terminology section, these literary analyses and the following discussion use a DuBosian theory of double consciousness to examine positionality and spatiality in hopes of bettering the lives of Black queer readers.
Author: Matt Brim Publisher: University of Michigan Press ISBN: 0472052349 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 227
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The central figure in black gay literary history, James Baldwin has become a familiar touchstone for queer scholarship in the academy. Matt Brim’s James Baldwin and the Queer Imagination draws on the contributions of queer theory and black queer studies to critically engage with and complicate the project of queering Baldwin and his work. Brim argues that Baldwin animates and, in contrast, disrupts both the black gay literary tradition and the queer theoretical enterprise that have claimed him. More paradoxically, even as Baldwin’s fiction brilliantly succeeds in imagining queer intersections of race and sexuality, it simultaneously exhibits striking queer failures, whether exploiting gay love or erasing black lesbian desire. Brim thus argues that Baldwin’s work is deeply marked by ruptures of the “unqueer” into transcendent queer thought—and that readers must sustain rather than override this paradoxical dynamic within acts of queer imagination.
Author: Darieck Scott Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 1479824143 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 277
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Introduction: Fantastic Bullets -- I Am Nubia: Superhero Comics and the Paradigm of the Fantasy-Act -- Can the Black Superhero Be? -- Erotic Fantasy-Acts: The Art of Desire -- Conclusion: On Becoming Fantastical.
Author: Darieck Scott Publisher: NYU Press ISBN: 0814740944 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 328
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Summary: Challenging the conception of empowerment associated with the Black Power Movement and its political and intellectual legacies, this title contends that power can be found not only in martial resistance, but, surprisingly, where the black body has been inflicted with harm or humiliation.
Author: Alvin J. Henry Publisher: U of Minnesota Press ISBN: 1452964440 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 296
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A groundbreaking examination of how twentieth-century African American writers use queer characters to challenge and ultimately reject subjectivity Black Queer Flesh reinterprets key African American novels from the Harlem Renaissance to Black Modernism to contemporary literature, showing how authors have imagined a new model of black queer selfhood. African American authors blame liberal humanism’s model of subjectivity for double consciousness and find that liberal humanism’s celebration of individual autonomy and agency is a way of disciplining Black queer lives. These authors thus reject subjectivity in search of a new mode of the self that Alvin J. Henry names “black queer flesh”—a model of selfhood that is collective, plural, fluctuating, and deeply connected to the black queer past. Henry begins with early twentieth-century authors such as Jessie Redmon Fauset and James Weldon Johnson. These authors adapted the Bildungsroman, the novel of self-formation, to show African Americans gaining freedom and agency by becoming a liberal, autonomous subjects. These authors, however, discovered that the promise of liberal autonomy held out by the Bildungsroman was yet another tool of antiblack racism. As a result, they tentatively experimented with repurposing the Bildungsroman to throw off subjectivity and its attendant double consciousness. In contrast, Nella Larsen, Henry shows, was the first author to fully reject subjectivity. In Quicksand and Passing, Larsen invented a new genre showing her queer characters—characters whose queerness already positioned them on the margins of subjectivity—escaping subjectivity altogether. Using Ralph Ellison’s archival drafts, Henry then powerfully rereads Invisible Man, revealing that the protagonist as a queer, disabled character taught by the novel’s many other queer, disabled characters to likewise seek a selfhood beyond subjectivity. Although Larsen and Ellison sketch glimpses of this selfhood beyond subjectivity, only Saidiya Hartman’s Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments shows a protagonist fully inhabiting black queer flesh—a new mode of selfhood that is collective, plural, always evolving, and no longer alienated from the black past. Black Queer Flesh is an original and necessary contribution to black literary studies, offering new ways to understand and appreciate the canonical texts and far more.
Author: Darryl Pinckney Publisher: Macmillan ISBN: 0374113815 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 305
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An intoxicating, provocative novel of appetite, identity, and self-construction, Darryl Pinckney's Black Deutschland tells the story of an outsider, trapped between a painful past and a tenebrous future, in Europe's brightest and darkest city. Jed—young, gay, black, out of rehab and out of prospects in his hometown of Chicago—flees to the city of his fantasies, a museum of modernism and decadence: Berlin. The paradise that tyranny created, the subsidized city isolated behind the Berlin Wall, is where he's chosen to become the figure that he so admires, the black American expatriate. Newly sober and nostalgic for the Weimar days of Isherwood and Auden, Jed arrives to chase boys and to escape from what it means to be a black male in America. But history, both personal and political, can't be avoided with time or distance. Whether it's the judgment of the cousin he grew up with and her husband's bourgeois German family, the lure of white wine in a down-and-out bar, a gang of racists looking for a brawl, or the ravaged visage of Rock Hudson flashing behind the face of every white boy he desperately longs for, the past never stays past even in faraway Berlin. In the age of Reagan and AIDS in a city on the verge of tearing down its walls, he clambers toward some semblance of adulthood amid the outcasts and expats, intellectuals and artists, queers and misfits. And, on occasion, the city keeps its Isherwood promises and the boy he kisses, incredibly, kisses him back.
Author: Toni Morrison Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307388638 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 86
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An immensely persuasive work of literary criticism that opens a new chapter in the American dialogue on race—and promises to change the way we read American literature—from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner Morrison shows how much the themes of freedom and individualism, manhood and innocence, depended on the existence of a black population that was manifestly unfree--and that came to serve white authors as embodiments of their own fears and desires. According to the Chicago Tribune, Morrison "reimagines and remaps the possibility of America." Her brilliant discussions of the "Africanist" presence in the fiction of Poe, Melville, Cather, and Hemingway leads to a dramatic reappraisal of the essential characteristics of our literary tradition. Written with the artistic vision that has earned the Nobel Prize-winning author a pre-eminent place in modern letters, Playing in the Dark is an invaluable read for avid Morrison admirers as well as students, critics, and scholars of American literature.
Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252052897 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 191
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Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship. Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.
Author: Emilio Amideo Publisher: Northwestern University Press ISBN: 0810143712 Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 364
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In Queer Tidalectics, Emilio Amideo investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics. Water recurs as a figurative and material site to express the Black queer experience within the diaspora, a means to explore malleability and overflowing sexual, gender, and racial boundaries. Amideo triangulates language, the aquatic, and affect to delineate a Black queer aesthetics, one that uses an idiom of fluidity, slipperiness, and opacity to undermine and circumvent gender normativity and the racialized heteropatriarchy embedded in English. The result is an outline of an ever-expanding affective archive of experiential knowledge. Amideo engages and extends the work of Black queer studies, Oceanic studies, ecocriticism, phenomenology, and new materialism through the theorizations of Sara Ahmed, Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley, M. Jacqui Alexander, Édouard Glissant, José Esteban Muñoz, and Edward Kamau Brathwaite, among others. Ambitious in scope and captivating to read, Queer Tidalectics brings Caribbean writers like Glissant and Brathwaite into queer literary analysis—a major scholarly contribution.
Author: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley Publisher: Duke University Press ISBN: 0822372088 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 198
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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.
Author: Kaitlyn McClung
Author: Kaitlyn McClung
Author: Matt Brim
Author: Darieck Scott
Author: Darieck Scott
Author: Alvin J. Henry
Author: Darryl Pinckney
Author: Toni Morrison
Author: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
Author: Emilio Amideo
Author: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley