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The Lonely Letters

by Ashon T. Crawley

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • 17.3 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

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For those seeking joy in loneliness and exclusion.

The Lonely Letters helps you explore blackqueer life.

You’ll find connection and transformation through joy.

The Lonely Letters invites you to explore the beauty of Black joy and the struggles of loneliness through heartfelt letters that blend theology, music, and the essence of Black queer life.

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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.
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  • Title

    The Lonely Letters

  • Author

    Ashon T. Crawley

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Duke University Press

  • Published

    April 2020

  • Weight

    454g

  • Dimensions

    17.3 x 21.6 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9781478008248

  • ISBN-10

    1478008245

  • Eden Code

    5258297

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