The Lonely Letters (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Duke University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 2020
First published:	2020
Authors:	Ashon T Crawley
Dimensions:	216 x 171mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages:	280
ISBN-13:	978-1-4780-0776-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > General
LSN:	1-4780-0776-1
Barcode:	9781478007760

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