LEADER 00000nim a22005295a 4500 003 MWT 005 20220228051352.0 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 220223s2022 xxunnn es i n eng d 020 9781666146233 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 1666146234 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 029 https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781666146233_180.jpeg 028 42 MWT14668245 037 14668245|bMidwest Tape, LLC|nhttp://www.midwesttapes.com 040 Midwest|erda 082 00 289.9/408996073|223 099 eAudiobook hoopla 099 eAudiobook hoopla 100 1 Crawley, Ashon T.,|eauthor,|eartist. 245 14 The lonely letters|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cAshon T. Crawley. 250 Unabridged. 264 1 [United States] :|bTantor Media, Inc.,|c2022. 264 2 |bMade available through hoopla 300 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 38 min.)) : |bdigital. 336 spoken word|bspw|2rdacontent 337 computer|bc|2rdamedia 338 online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 344 digital|hdigital recording|2rda 347 data file|2rda 506 Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 1 Read by Benjamin Charles. 520 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. 538 Mode of access: World Wide Web. 600 10 Crawley, Ashon T. 650 0 African American Pentecostals|vBiography. 650 0 Loneliness|xReligious aspects|xChristianity. 650 0 African American sexual minorities|xReligious life. 650 0 African American Pentecostal churches|xSocial aspects. 650 0 Church music|xAfrican American churches. 650 0 African Americans|xRace identity. 650 0 Experience (Religion) 700 1 Charles, Benjamin. 710 2 hoopla digital. 856 40 |uhttps://www.hoopladigital.com/title/ 14668245?utm_source=MARC|zInstantly available on hoopla. 856 42 |zCover image|uhttps://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/ ttm_9781666146233_180.jpeg