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Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

Erotic Testimonies draws inspiration from Audre Lorde''s "Uses of the Erotic" to explore how Black women access their interiority and use their feelings to engage in processes of self-actualization and make themselves free. Blending genres and resisting the confines of conventional scholarly analysis, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery undertakes what she characterizes as a performative embodied reading of testimonies by four "wild" women from her own life. Jordan-Zachery takes care not to define what constitutes a wild woman-that''s been done enough to oppressive ends-but rather tends to these women''s forms and means of self-articulation. Complex accounts of wildness, freedom, femininity, the erotic, and the divine emerge from her field notes. Erotic Testimonies attests to the experience of the individual as well as, and even more importantly, how the individual speaks to a broader collective that here includes Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Janet Jackson, the author, her grandmother, and many more.

Erotic Testimonies

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      Publisher State University of New York Press
      Published 2 June 2023
      ISBN-13 9781438491165
      978-1438491165
      ISBN-10 1438491166
      Also in:
      Ethnic studies / Ethnicity Feminism and feminist theory

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Asks how Black women tap into their feelings to develop ways to live freely.

      Erotic Testimonies draws inspiration from Audre Lorde''s "Uses of the Erotic" to explore how Black women access their interiority and use their feelings to engage in processes of self-actualization and make themselves free. Blending genres and resisting the confines of conventional scholarly analysis, Julia S. Jordan-Zachery undertakes what she characterizes as a performative embodied reading of testimonies by four "wild" women from her own life. Jordan-Zachery takes care not to define what constitutes a wild woman-that''s been done enough to oppressive ends-but rather tends to these women''s forms and means of self-articulation. Complex accounts of wildness, freedom, femininity, the erotic, and the divine emerge from her field notes. Erotic Testimonies attests to the experience of the individual as well as, and even more importantly, how the individual speaks to a broader collective that here includes Lorde, bell hooks, Toni Morrison, Janet Jackson, the author, her grandmother, and many more.

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