Queer Tidalectics : Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity in Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature /

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"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"--

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Amideo, Emilio (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2021.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Mootoo, Shani.
Kay, Jackie, > 1961-
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987.
Mootoo, Shani > Criticism and interpretation.
Glave, Thomas > Criticism and interpretation.
Kay, Jackie, > 1961- > Criticism and interpretation.
Baldwin, James, > 1924-1987 > Criticism and interpretation.
Water in literature.
Queer theory.
Gays in literature.
English literature > Black authors.
American literature > African American authors.
American literature > African American authors > History and criticism.
English literature > Black authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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