The Lonely Letters Hardback
by Ashon T. Crawley
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 19 color illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:10/04/2020
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- ISBN:9781478007760
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:280 pages, 19 color illustrations
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:10/04/2020
- Category:
- ISBN:9781478007760