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Queer tidalectics : linguistic and sexual fluidity in contemporary Black diasporic literature
- Title
- Queer tidalectics : linguistic and sexual fluidity in contemporary Black diasporic literature / Emilio Amideo.
- Author
- Amideo, Emilio
- Publication
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- x, 274 pages; 23 cm.
- 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"--
- Series Statement
- Critical insurgencies : a book series of the Critical Ethnic Studies Association
- Uniform Title
- Critical insurgencies.
- Subject
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation
- Kay, Jackie, 1961- > Criticism and interpretation
- Glave, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation
- Mootoo, Shani > Criticism and interpretation
- Baldwin, James, 1924-1987
- Kay, Jackie, 1961-
- Mootoo, Shani
- English literature > Black authors > History and criticism
- American literature > African American authors > History and criticism
- Gay people in literature
- Water in literature
- Queer theory
- American literature > African American authors
- English literature > Black authors
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-922
- ISBN
- 9780810143692
- 0810143690
- 9780810143708
- 0810143704
- LCCN
- 2021003884
- OCLC
- 1198556991
- Author
- Amideo, Emilio, author.
- Title
- Queer tidalectics : linguistic and sexual fluidity in contemporary Black diasporic literature / Emilio Amideo.
- Publisher
- Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Critical insurgencies : a book series of the Critical Ethnic Studies AssociationCritical insurgencies.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-922