Poetics of Difference - Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

List of contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction. Black Queer Feminist Poetics: Rereading the Intersection

Chapter One. Biomythic Times: Voice, Genre, and the Invention of Black/Queer History

Chapter Two. "walkin on the edges of the galaxy": Queer Choreopoetic Thought in the African Diaspora

Chapter Three. Feeling Colors and Seeing Speech: Body/Language and Black Women's Diasporas of

Chapter Four. "Languages of Love": "TALK" of Sex: Interstitial Idioms of Body and Desire

Coda. Speech between Silence: Distance, Difference, and the Queer Poetics of Blackwoman Living

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Back cover

About the author

Mecca Jamilah Sullivan is an assistant professor of English at Bryn Mawr and the author of Blue Talk and Love.

Product details

• Authors: Mecca Jamilah Sullivan
• Publisher: University Of Illinois Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.10.2021
• EAN: 9780252086038
• ISBN: 978-0-252-08603-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: New Black Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories