The lonely letters /
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| Author / Creator: | Crawley, Ashon T., author. |
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| Imprint: | Durham : Duke University Press, 2020. ©2020 |
| Description: | 1 online resource ( 270 pages) |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12537757 |
| Summary: | In The Lonely Letters , A tells Moth: "Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding." But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley--writing as A--meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and a performance, The Lonely Letters gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource ( 270 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1478009306 9781478009306 9781478007760 1478007761 9781478008248 1478008245 |
