The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution

by Matt Richardson and Matt Richardson

Book Overview

The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution identifies a new archive of Black women's literature that has heretofore been on the margins of literary scholarship and African diaspora cultural criticism. It argues that Black lesbian texts celebrate both the strategies of resistance used by queer Black subjects and the spaces for grieving the loss of queer Black subjects that dominant histories of the African diasporas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814252907
• ISBN13: 9780814252901
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: Ohio State University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"