Includes bibliographical references (pages 247 - 267) and index.
Contents:
Introduction. Fluid Language and Black Queer Diasporic Aesthetics -- The Sub(merged) Text in James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room -- Waves of Sound, Gender Fluidity, and Shifting Kinships in Jackie Kay's Trumpet -- To Breathe in Water: Alternative Voicing of Queer Belonging in Thomas Glave's Work -- Time (Un)flowing and Sideways Movement in Shani Mootoo's Moving Forward Sideways Like a Crab -- Conclusion. Fluid Archives of the Black Queer Diaspora.
Summary:
"Queer Tidalectics 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
Critical insurgencies : a book series of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association
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