| Description |
1 online resource (x, 325 pages) : illustrations |
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data file rda |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-320) and index. |
| Access |
Open access. |
| Note |
Description based on print version and online resource, viewed August 11, 2023. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Looking for roots among the mangroves -- Queer roots in Africa -- Scandals and lies : the truth about roots -- From roots that uproot to queer diasporas -- The seduction of roots and the roots of seduction -- Booger Hollar and other queer sites : ghosts in the family tree. |
| Summary |
"As a way of understanding identity, the concept of rootedness has increasingly been subjected to acerbic political and theoretical critiques. Politically, roots narratives have been criticized for attempting to police identity through a politics of purity-excluding anyone who doesn't share the same narrative. Theoretically, a critique of essentialism has led toga suspicion against essence and origins regardless of their political implications. The central argument of Queer Roots for the Diaspora is that, in spite of these debates around the concept of roots, ultimately the desire for roots contains the "roots" of its own deconstruction. The book considers alternative root narratives that acknowledge the impossibility of returning to origins with any certainty; welcome sexual diversity; acknowledge their own fictionality; reveal that even a single collective identity can be rooted in multiple ways; and create family trees haunted by the queer others patrilineal genealogy seems to marginalize. The roots narratives simultaneously assert and question rooted identities within a number of diasporas-African, Jewish, and Armenian"--From publisher's description. |
| Subject |
Umschulungswerkstätten für Siedler und Auswanderer Bitterfeld.
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Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
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Sexual minorities -- Africa.
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African American sexual minorities -- Race identity.
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Family secrets -- Africa.
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Family secrets -- United States.
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Gender identity -- Africa.
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Gender identity -- United States.
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African diaspora in literature.
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Jewish diaspora in literature.
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Armenian diaspora.
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Queer theory.
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Discourse analysis, Narrative.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) in literature.
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Gay & Lesbian.
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African American sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01938544
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African diaspora. (OCoLC)fst00799755
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Family secrets. (OCoLC)fst01737651
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Gender identity. (OCoLC)fst00939593
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Sexual minorities. (OCoLC)fst01202158
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Africa. (OCoLC)fst01239509
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Einwanderer.
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Genealogie.
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Geschlechterrolle.
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LGBT.
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Narrativ Grammatik.
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African American LGBTQ+ people. https://homosaurus.org/v3/homoit0000015
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Black LGBTQ+ people.
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| Indexed Term |
Comparative literature Queer diaspora studies Francophone studies Roots narratives LGBTQ+ studies Créolité African homosexuality Queer identity in African literature Queer identity in American literature Armenian diaspora in motion pictures Alex Haley, Roots |
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Cross-cultural studies.
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Literary criticism.
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Film criticism.
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Discursive works.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Queer roots for the diaspora. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2016 9780472053162 (DLC) 2016029294 |
| ISBN |
9780472122066 (electronic book) |
| Standard No. |
10.3998/mpub.8781040 |
