Christopher S Lewis
Biographic Data
| ID | 3613117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher S Lewis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher S |
| FAMILY NAME | Lewis |
| SIGNATURE | LEWIS C S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ohio University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-8654-9529 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Speculating on Jim Crow Queerness in African American Lesbian and Gay Life Writing
The late twentieth-century life writing of Audre Lorde and Samuel Delany imagines black lesbian and gay experiences during the era of Jim Crow segregation and, in doing so, models a queer and speculative engagement with the tradition of African American life writing. By undermining the presumption that gender and sexual normativity worked as shields against racism during the Jim Crow era, Lorde and Delany, in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Bi…
Neuter-Bound/Neuter-Freed
This article highlights moments in William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl that feature black women using masculine performance, and black men using their own (knowledge of) same-gender desires, for the purposes of black liberation. Focusing on these moments broadens our understandings of queer gender during slavery, seeing queerness not solely as an imposition that some ensl…
Conjure Women, Root Men, and Normative Visions of Freedom in Antebellum Slave Narratives
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 74, Number 2, Summer 2018
Queering Personhood in the Neo-Slave Narrative
This article uses the explorations of antebellum black gender and sexuality in Jewelle Gomez's neo-slave narrative The Gilda Stories (1991) to reconsider what Hortense Spillers has called the "neuter-bound" status of black gender and sexuality during slavery. Spillers's work finds whiteness to be enacted through penetration of the enslaved and blackness to be neuter/neutered, meaning both gender indeterminate and incapable of penetration. Unfortu…
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Queer Beauty
Queering Personhood in the Neo-Slave Narrative
This article uses the explorations of antebellum black gender and sexuality in Jewelle Gomez's neo-slave narrative The Gilda Stories (1991) to reconsider what Hortense Spillers has called the "neuter-bound" status of black gender and sexuality during slavery. Spillers's work finds whiteness to be enacted through penetration of the enslaved and blackness to be neuter/neutered, meaning both gender indeterminate and incapable of penetration. Unfortu…
Conjure Women, Root Men, and Normative Visions of Freedom in Antebellum Slave Narratives
Arizona Quarterly: A Journal of American Literature, Culture, and Theory - Volume 74, Number 2, Summer 2018
Speculating on Jim Crow Queerness in African American Lesbian and Gay Life Writing
The late twentieth-century life writing of Audre Lorde and Samuel Delany imagines black lesbian and gay experiences during the era of Jim Crow segregation and, in doing so, models a queer and speculative engagement with the tradition of African American life writing. By undermining the presumption that gender and sexual normativity worked as shields against racism during the Jim Crow era, Lorde and Delany, in Zami: A New Spelling of My Name: A Bi…
Neuter-Bound/Neuter-Freed
This article highlights moments in William Craft's Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom and Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl that feature black women using masculine performance, and black men using their own (knowledge of) same-gender desires, for the purposes of black liberation. Focusing on these moments broadens our understandings of queer gender during slavery, seeing queerness not solely as an imposition that some ensl…
Art (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Queer (4 works) · Race, History, and American Society (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · History (2 works)