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Redefining the Boundaries: Black and Asian Queer Desire
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posted on 2023-08-30, 15:19 authored by Kate HouldenLittle is commonly said about sexuality in black and Asian British creative production, although diverse and often contradictory expressions of non-normative desire are easily traced throughout the twentieth century in the writing of, among others, McKay, Dawes, and Naipaul as well as Kureishi, Smartt, and Agbabi. Ranging across various literary forms to look at writers such as Kei Miller, Bernadine Evaristo, Diriye Osman, Neel Mukherjee, Thomas Glave, Jay Bernard, and Adam Lowe, this chapter raises questions about the interrogation, blurring, and translation of racial and sexual identities across a range of orientations and generations. It examines how texts have redefined and questioned the powerful stereotypes surrounding representations of black and Asian bodies, sexualities, and gendered identities. In so doing, it charts the uneven evolution and heterogeneous quality of queer black writing, framing it against Stuart Hall’s ‘refusal to represent the black experience in Britain as monolithic, self-contained, sexually stabilised and always “right on”’.
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569-583External DOI
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Cambridge University PressPlace of publication
Cambridge, UKTitle of book
The Cambridge History of Black and Asian British WritingISBN
9781108164146Editors
Mark Stein, Susheila NastaFile version
- Accepted version
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- eng
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2018-07-27Legacy creation date
2018-07-27Legacy Faculty/School/Department
Faculty of Arts, Humanities & Social SciencesUsage metrics
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