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Summary:

"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 women writers of the diaspora have actively engaged in a politically rooted experimentalism that has reached broad audiences and produced iconic texts in both popular and academic intellectual spheres across the globe. This project explores the social and political resonances of African Diaspora women artists' experimental and formally subversive works. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan draws links between important genre-bending texts of the late-twentieth century (such as Audre Lorde's 1982 "biomythography," Zami, Ntozake Shange's 1975 "choreopoem," for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf, and Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo's 1977 prosepoem novella, Our Sister Killjoy) and more recent examples of black feminist experimentalism in the diaspora, such as those by queer Trinidadian poet and novelist Dionne Brand, South African lesbian photographer Zanele Muholi, African-American playwright Suzan-Lori Parks, and Afro-Cuban lesbian hip-hop duo Las Krudas Cubensi. Reading these artists' works through a black queer feminist frame attentive to queerness as a matter of both formal heterogeneity and identity difference shows that these artists use subversive poetics to contest dominant models of sexuality, gender, and political subjectivity in the African Diaspora"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: ch. One Biomythic Times: Voice, Genre, and the Invention of Black/Queer History
• ch. Two "walkin on the edges of the galaxy": Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the African Diaspora
• ch. Three Feeling Colors and Seeing Speech: Body/Language and Black Women's Diasporas of Difference
• ch. Four "Languages of Love," "TALK" of Sex: Interstitial Idioms of Body and Desire.

Author/Creator:

Sullivan, Mecca Jamilah , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

The poetics of difference: queer feminist forms in the African diaspora [by Sullivan, M.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Poetics of difference [by Sullivan, M.J.] (Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021 — ISBN 9780252043963; LCCN 2021006472)

Related 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

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Call Numbers:

PR9340 .S85 2021eb

ISBNs:

0252052897 (electronic book)
9780252052897 (electronic bk.)
9780252043963 (hardcover, acid-free paper) [Invalid]
9780252086038 (paperback, acid-free paper) [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2021006473

OCLC Numbers:

1250435387

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6748954 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302514155