The queer limit of Black memory : Black lesbian literature and irresolution /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Richardson, Matt, 1969-
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : Ohio State University Press, [2013]
Series:	Black performance and cultural criticism.
Subjects:	Lesbians in literature. Lesbianism in literature. Blacks in literature. Gomez, Jewelle, > 1948- > Criticism and interpretation. Barnett, LaShonda K. > (LaShonda Katrice), > 1974- > Criticism and interpretation. Adamz-Bogus, SDiane, > 1946- > Criticism and interpretation. Brown, Laurinda D. > Criticism and interpretation. Muhanji, Cherry > Criticism and interpretation. Bridgforth, Sharon > Criticism and interpretation. Kay, Jackie, > 1961- > Criticism and interpretation. Brand, Dionne, > 1953- > Criticism and interpretation.

Table of Contents:

Introduction : listening to the archives : Black lesbian literature and queer memory
Desirous mistresses and unruly slaves : neo-slave narratives, property, power, and desire
Small movements : queer blues epistemologies in Cherry Muhanji's Her
"Mens womens some that is both some that is neither" : spiritual epistemology and queering the Black rural South in the work of Sharon Bridgforth
"Make it up and trace it back" : remembering Black trans subjectivity in Jackie Kay's Trumpet
What grace was : erotic epistemologies and diasporic belonging in Dionne Brand's In another place, not here
Epilogue : grieving the queer : anti-Black violence and black collective memory.