{"product_id":"ezilis-mirrors-9780822370307","title":"Ezilis Mirrors","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOmise'eke Natasha Tinsley traces how contemporary queer Caribbean and African American writers, filmmakers, musicians, and performers evoke the divinity Ezilia pantheon of lwa feminine spirits in Vodouin ways that offer a new model of queer black feminist theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEzili’s Mirrors \u003c\/i\u003ethoroughly and carefully mines the utility and uniqueness of multiple spiritual and thought traditions, aesthetics, and sources of knowledge. . .. \u003ci\u003eEzili’s Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e is important because through it Tinsley shows us ways that black femme life and black queer life exists and asserts itself as other than the abject, the undesirable, the inappropriate, and the excessive.\" -- Alexandria Smith * The New Inquiry *\u003cbr\u003e\"I have longed for a book as daring as \u003ci\u003eEzili's Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e.\" -- Meredith Coleman-Tobias * Reading Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\"This pathbreaking work prompts Black feminist and queer diaspora scholars to use their academic training not as an endpoint, but as a point of departure, emboldening scholars to turn to whatever sources that are necessary to write books that will sustain alternative forms of knowing under increasing conditions of precarity in Black queer diasporic lives, loves, and labor.\" -- Darius Bost * The Black Scholar *\u003cbr\u003e\"Once in a great while, a gem of a book comes along. It is not only elegantly written and astutely composed, compellingly and courageously argued, but it also opens up new and generative ways of looking at the African diaspora and the disciplines devoted to its study. I am talking about Tinsley’s \u003ci\u003eEzili’s Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e. I read the book with intense joy, on many levels: its theoretical polyamory, its dazzling methodology, its engrossing narrations, and the different senses it calls on.\" -- Gloria Wekker * TSQ *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eEzili's Mirrors\u003c\/i\u003e makes an original contribution to the development of the field of queer black religion and to the ways in which this scholarship has a wider, public impact in the representation and self-understanding of queer-of-color spiritual communities whose members experience lives of constant fragmentation and recomposition daily, globally.\" -- Roberto Strongman * GLQ *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Bridge. Read This Book Like a Song  1\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. For the Love of Laveau  3\u003cbr\u003e Bridge. A Black Cisfemme Is a Beautiful Thing  29\u003cbr\u003e 1. To Transcender Transgender  31\u003cbr\u003e Bridge. Sissy Werk  65\u003cbr\u003e 2. Mache Ansanm  67\u003cbr\u003e Bridge. My Femdom, My Love  99\u003cbr\u003e 3. Riding the Red  101\u003cbr\u003e Bridge. For the Party Girls  133\u003cbr\u003e 4. Its a Party  135\u003cbr\u003e Bridge. Baía and Marigo  169\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion. Arties's Song  171\u003cbr\u003e Notes  195\u003cbr\u003e Glossary  223\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  225\u003cbr\u003e Index  241","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406108205399,"sku":"9780822370307","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780822370307.jpg?v=1730494557","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ezilis-mirrors-9780822370307","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}