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In the life and in the spirit : homoerotic spirituality in African American literature / Marlon Rachquel Moore.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781438454092
  • 1438454090
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: In the life and in the spiritDDC classification:
  • 810.9/896073 23
LOC classification:
  • PS153.N5 M663 2014eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Oward a genealogy of black queer spirituality. Gay Christianity -- Gay Christian narrative: Langston Hughes, "blessed assurance" -- Sacred sensuality: Just above my head -- Philosophies of the spirit. Soul talk & sermonic seduction: The color purple; Say Jesus, and Come to me -- Neo-spirit narrative: "in the life" -- Nontheist cosmologies. Humanist zealotry: Parable of the sower; Parable of the talents -- Reciprocity as spiritual ethos: The Gilda stories -- Closing thoughts.
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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)891363

Print version record.

Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Univeristy of Florida.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Oward a genealogy of black queer spirituality. Gay Christianity -- Gay Christian narrative: Langston Hughes, "blessed assurance" -- Sacred sensuality: Just above my head -- Philosophies of the spirit. Soul talk & sermonic seduction: The color purple; Say Jesus, and Come to me -- Neo-spirit narrative: "in the life" -- Nontheist cosmologies. Humanist zealotry: Parable of the sower; Parable of the talents -- Reciprocity as spiritual ethos: The Gilda stories -- Closing thoughts.

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.