Bitch out of hell
The queer urban marronage of Assotto Saint
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4517181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ryan Joyce (Tulane University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 176-193 |
| Publication date | 2017-05-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Women & Performance a journal of feminist theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0740-770X • E-ISSN: 1748-5819 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/0740770x.2017.1315230 |
| OpenAlex | W2614503641 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 18 |
This essay contributes to an emerging body of critical work on the gay Haitian-American poet, performer, and essayist Assotto Saint by reexamining his important contributions to the HIV/AIDS movement of the late 1980s and early 1990s through the lens of maroon and queer diaspora studies. Saint’s creative revolutionary movements, reflected through his poetry, essays, theater, and activism challenged entrenched state-sanctioned discrimination against queer black subjects while issuing a powerful critique of late twentieth-century American capitalism. In this way, the essay reads Saint as a transnational queer artist and activist who cultivated personal and collective freedom through the performance of subversive social practices and acts in what the author calls queer urban maroon communities. The author argues that these communities provocatively resisted the racist and heteronormative American response to the AIDS epidemic through cruising spaces and the creation of queer black artist collectives
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dance · Diaspora · Literature · Maroon · Poetry · Queer · SAINT · Sociology · Visual arts · Caribbean and African Literature and Culture · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Gender Studies · History
Freedom as Marronage
Territories of the Soul
Impossible Desires
Terrorist Assemblages
(Trans)nationalisms, Marronage, and Queer Caribbean Subjectivities
No Future
Maroon Societies
Pedagogies of Crossing
Terrorist Assemblages
Saint's Progeny
Marronnons Let's Maroon
The Legacy of Assotto Saint
Cartographies of Desire
The Boundaries of Blackness
In a Queer Time and Place
Publics and Counterpublics
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,2 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |