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The Lonely Letters /

"The Lonely Letters is a Black queer critique of the normative world, practicing a restlessness of word and phrase that seeks existence otherwise. The book is a work of creative non-fiction, taking the form of a correspondence between characters A and Moth. The letters explore Blackness and que...

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Autor principal: Crawley, Ashon T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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