The Lonely Letters
Author(s): Ashon T. Crawley
LGBTI & Queer Studies | Lambda Awards 2021
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.
Lambda Award – LGBTI Non-Fiction
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Duke University Press
- : Duke University Press
- : 0.476272
- : 01 April 2020
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- : 01 May 2020
- : books
Special Fields
- : 280
- : English
- : Paperback
- : Ashon T. Crawley