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Queer tidalectics : linguistic and sexual fluidity in contemporary Black diasporic literature by Emilio Amideo is a literary studies available to read on EtoBox.
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In <i>Queer Tidalectics</i>, 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, and affect to delineate a Black queer aesthetics
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- Author
- Emilio Amideo
- Publisher
- Northwestern University Press
- Published
- 2021
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780810143715
- Category
- literary studies
- Subjects
- Literary Criticism, Lgbtq, Gender Studies
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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