Queer Tidalectics: Linguistic and Sexual Fluidity in Contemporary Black Diasporic Literature

by Emilio Amideo

Book Overview

In Queer Tidalectics, Emilio Amideo investigates how Anglophone writers James Baldwin, Jackie Kay, Thomas Glave, and Shani Mootoo employ the trope of fluidity to articulate a Black queer diasporic aesthetics. Water recurs as a figurative and material site to express the Black queer experience within the diaspora, a means to explore malleability and overflowing sexual, gender, and racial boundaries. Amideo triangulates language, the aquatic,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810143690
• ISBN13: 9780810143692
• Release Date: June 2021
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.9"