Saint's Progeny
Assotto Saint, Gay Black Poets, and Poetic Agency in the Field of the Queer Symbolic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4546458 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Doug Steward (0000-0002-7699-5329, corresponding author), Douglas Steward |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 507 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Penn State Press (Project Muse) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2901218 |
| OpenAlex | W91993181 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
Gay black representations of the phallus subvert recognizable images of the gay/black phallus, and they draw on a tradition, however brief, of writers who have also possessed and spoken from the gay/black phallus. In thus circumventing symbolic castration, Saint's progeny effectively engage in a tentative yet decidedly agentive elaboration of gay black identity in the field of what we can begin to call the queer symbolic
Agency (philosophy · Art · Art history · Field (mathematics · Literature · Poetry · Queer · SAINT · Sociology · Gender Studies · History · Mathematics · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South Asian Cinema and Culture · Theatre and Performance Studies
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,27 |
| Citation span | 2000 - 2017 (18) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |