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Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora

Territories of the Soul: Queered Belonging in the Black Diaspora - Paperback

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Availability:In StockContributor:Nadia EllisPublish date:2015-09-14Pages:256
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822359289ISBN-10:822359286UPC:9780822359289Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, AmericanBook Topic:American, African American & BlackSize:9.13 x 6.02 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SC9MJ2N0N5
Nadia Ellis attends to African diasporic belonging as it comes into being through black expressive culture. Living in the diaspora, Ellis asserts, means existing between claims to land and imaginative flights unmoored from the earth--that is, to live within the territories of the soul. Drawing on the work of Jose Mu?oz, Ellis connects queerness' utopian potential with diasporic aesthetics. Occupying the territory of the soul, being neither here nor there, creates in diasporic subjects feelings of loss, desire, and a sensation of a pull from elsewhere. Ellis locates these phenomena in the works of C.L.R. James, the testy encounter between George Lamming and James Baldwin at the 1956 Congress of Negro Artists and Writers in Paris, the elusiveness of the queer diasporic subject in Andrew Salkey's novel Escape to an Autumn Pavement, and the trope of spirit possession in Nathaniel Mackey's writing and Burning Spear's reggae. Ellis' use of queer and affect theory shows how geographies claim diasporic subjects in ways that nationalist or masculinist tropes can never fully capture. Diaspora, Ellis concludes, is best understood as a mode of feeling and belonging, one fundamentally shaped by the experience of loss.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822359289ISBN-10:822359286UPC:9780822359289Book Category:Social Science, Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Ethnic Studies, AmericanBook Topic:American, African American & BlackSize:9.13 x 6.02 x 0.34 inchesWeight:0.7804Product ID:SC9MJ2N0N5
Nadia Ellis is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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