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Subject(s)

• African literature (English)—Black authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• African literature (English)—Women authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• American literature—African American authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• American literature—Women authors—History and criticism [Browse]
• Literature, Experimental—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature [Browse]
• African diaspora in literature [Browse]
• Women, Black, in literature [Browse]
• Feminism and literature [Browse]
• Queer theory [Browse]

Series

• New Black studies series [More in this series]
• The new Black studies series

Summary note

"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.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Reproduction note

Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.

Source of description

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 21, 2021).

ISBN

• 0252052897 (electronic book)
• 9780252052897 ((electronic bk.))

LCCN

2021006473

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