Bibliograph

In the life and in the spirit, homoerotic spirituality in African American literature, Marlon Rachquel Moore

Type

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In the life and in the spirit, homoerotic spirituality in African American literature, Marlon Rachquel Moore

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

In the life and in the spirit

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Marlon Rachquel Moore

Sub title

homoerotic spirituality in African American literature

Summary

Examines a range of fiction that challenges widespread assumptions about what it means to be a black person of faith. Taking up the perceived tensions between the LGBTQ community and religious African Americans, Marlon Rachquel Moore examines how strategies of antihomophobic resistance dovetail into broader literary and cultural concerns. In the Life and in the Spirit shows how creative writers integrate expressions of faith or the supernatural with sensuality, desire, and pleasure in a way that highlights a spectrum of black sexualities and gender expressions. Through these fusions, African American writers enact queer spiritualities that situate the well-known work of James Baldwin into a broader community of artists, including Bruce Nugent, Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Jewelle Gomez, Becky Birtha, an d Octavia Butler. In these texts from 1963 to 1999, Moore identifies a pervasive, affirming stance toward LGBTQ people and culture in African American literary production

Target audience

adult

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