In the Life and in the Spirit

Taking up the perceived tensions between the LGBTQ community and religious African Americans, Marlon Rachquel Moore examines how strategies of antihomophobic resistance dovetail into broader literary and cultural concerns. In the Life and in the Spirit shows how creative writers integrate expressions of faith or the supernatural with sensuality, desire, and pleasure in a way that highlights a spectrum of black sexualities and gender expressions. Through these fusions, African American writers enact queer spiritualities that situate the well-known work of James Baldwin into a broader community of artists, including Bruce Nugent, Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Jewelle Gomez, Becky Birtha, an d Octavia Butler. In these texts from 1963 to 1999, Moore identifies a pervasive, affirming stance toward LGBTQ people and culture in African American literary production.

Preluand tensiunile percepute intre comunitatea LGBTQ si afro-americanii religiosi, Marlon Rachquel Moore examineaza modul in care strategiile de rezistenta antihomofoba se potrivesc cu preocupari literare si culturale mai largi. In Viata si in Duh arata cum scriitorii creativi integreaza expresiile credintei sau supranaturalului cu senzualitatea, dorinta si placerea intr-un mod care evidentiaza un spectru de sexualitati negre si expresii de gen.