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  title info:
    title: On the very edge
    sub title: bidentities in Michelle Cliff's fiction
  title info:
    title: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's fiction
  name:
    name part: Kinane, Ian
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Literary criticism.
  genre: Critiques littéraires.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2025
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: ix, 152 pages ; 24 cm
  abstract: "On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946-2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies that prioritizes "bi-ness" as a methodological tool. The book focuses not "simply" on bisexuality, biracialism, or biculturalism as isolated identity concepts; rather, it explores the very nature of these intersectional identity categories as configured by Cliff. The text, therefore, represents a reclamation of bi identity in Cliff's work as a much broader cultural, and not just sexual or racial, category, arguing that Cliff's spaces and/or stages of "bi-ness" are in themselves significant in understanding contemporary global identity politics, as well as in navigating complex and often damaging identity constructs. Partnered with poet Adrienne Rich and "passing" as white, Michelle Cliff's sexuality and cultural ethnicity were often invisible. Yet her acclaimed work-Abeng, No Telephone to Heaven, Bodies of Water, If I Could Write This in Fire, Free Enterprise, and others-demonstrates the intersections between bisexuality, biracialism, and biculturalism in often profound ways. Drawing on original research, interviews, diaries, editorials, and other correspondences, On the Very Edge will have far-reaching implications in the understanding of complex Caribbean identity politics and intersectional race, gender, and sexuality studies at large"--
  table of contents: "The bifurcated female": an introduction in fragments -- "Split into two parts": Michelle Cliff 's double consciousness -- "The third division": Michelle Cliff 's killing ambivalence -- "A place for in-betweens": Michelle Cliff 's liminality -- "Ways into their own bodies": Michelle Cliff 's queer transactions -- "Like the bisexuality I clung to": some concluding thoughts.
  note: Ian Kinane.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Cliff, Michelle
    topic: Criticism and interpretation
  subject:
    topic: Identity (Psychology) in literature
  subject:
    topic: Bisexuality in literature
  subject:
    topic: Biculturalism in literature
  subject:
    topic: Multiracial people in literature
  subject:
    topic: Identité (Psychologie) dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Bisexualité dans la littérature
  subject:
    topic: Biculturalisme dans la littérature
  classification: PR9265.9.C55 Z696 2025
  classification: 813/.54
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    title info:
      title: On the very edge
    name:
      name part: Kinane, Ian.
    origin info:
      publisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2025
    identifier: (DLC) 2024036153
  identifier: 9781496855145
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  location:
    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 240909
    record change date: 20250802185240.7
    record identifier: in00005653858
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng