Mecca Jamilah Sullivan — The Poetics of Difference: Queer Feminist Aesthetics in the African Diaspora

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University of Illinois Press, paperback

Publication Date: October 12, 2021

Publisher Marketing: “Contemporary black women writers of the African Diaspora have developed rich, nuanced, and complex literary forms through which to explore social, political, and erotic experience. Since the height of the post-civil rights and decolonialization movements of the late-twentieth century, black women writers of the diaspora have actively engaged in a politically rooted experimentalism that has reached broad audiences and produced iconic texts in both popular and academic intellectual spheres across the globe. This project explores the social and political resonances of African Diaspora women artists

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