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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 38 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Benjamin Charles. |
| Summary |
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. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Crawley, Ashon T.
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African American Pentecostals -- Biography.
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Loneliness -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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African American sexual minorities -- Religious life.
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African American Pentecostal churches -- Social aspects.
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Church music -- African American churches.
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African Americans -- Race identity.
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Experience (Religion)
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| Added Author |
Charles, Benjamin.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781666146233 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1666146234 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT14668245 |
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