Black Intersectionalities

Abstract

Introduction: Monica Michlin (Universite Paris-Sorbonne, France) and Jean-Paul Rocchi (Universite Paris -Est Marne-la-Vallee, France) Exordium: Writing and the Relation: From Textual Coloniality to South African Black Consciousness Rozena Maart (University of KwaZulu Natal, Durban, South Africa) I) Challenging Hegemonic Gender Identities: Postcolonial Backlash & Being Proper: Femininity Blackness Sexuality and Transgender in the Public Eye Antje Schuhmann (Witwatersrand University, Johannesburg, South Africa) Productive Investments: Masculinities and Economies in Fisher's Walls of Jericho Eva Boesenberg (Humboldt-Universitat, Berlin, Germany) 'I Hugged Myself': First-Person Narration as an Agential Act in Octavia Butler's The Evening and the Morning and the Night Florian Bast (Universitat Leipzig, Germany) II) Nonconformity and Narrative Theorizing: Benjamin Franklin's Ethnic Drag-Notes on Abolition, Satire, and Affect Carsten Junker (Bremen University, Germany) Weh eye nuh see heart nuh leap: Claude McKay's Literary Drag Performance in Banana Bottom Jarrett H. Brown (College of the Holy Cross, USA) Souls of Black Gay Folk: Black Arts Movement and Melvin Dixon's Revision of Du Boisian Double Consciousness in Vanishing Rooms Charles Nero (Bates College, USA) III) Upsurges of Desire: Risking Sensuality: Toni Morrison's Erotics of Writing Claudine Raynaud (Universite Paul-Valery, Montpellier 3, France) Cultures of Melancholia: Theorizing Desire and the Black Body Laura Sarnelli (University of Naples L'Orientale, Italy) Richard Wright's Poetics of Black Being: Metaphor, Desire, and Doing Rebecka Rutledge Fisher (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) IV) Epistemological Genealogies and Prospections: On the Monstrous Threat of Reasoned Black Desire Lewis R. Gordon (University of Connecticut at Storrs, USA) Revising Jezebel Politics: Toward a New Black Sexual Ethic Jennifer S. Leath (Yale University, USA) Challenge of Black Feminist Desire: Abolish Property Sabine Broeck (Bremen University, Germany)