The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Forms in the African Diaspora

by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan

Book Overview

From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women's queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252086031
• ISBN13: 9780252086038
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"