Tryin' to Scrub that "Death Pussy" Clean Again
The Pleasures of Domesticating HIV/Aids in Pearl Cleage's Fiction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Timothy S Lyle (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 153-168 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2017.0019 |
| OpenAlex | W2736356743 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Examining Pearl Cleage's What Looks Like Crazy on an Ordinary Day (1997), I read through pleasure and politics to explore how HIV/AIDS enters into the lives of black heterosexual women in narrative discourse. Threading disability studies and black "quare" theory, I investigate the pleasures of domesticating and converting the "threatening" poz character—integrating a perceived threat back into the social order as a mouthpiece for heterosexual, able-bodied normality. Because this domestication is not narratively casual or politically neutral, I highlight the investments, benefits, pleasures, and dangers of these narratives and discuss how they impact our understandings of blackness and disability
Aesthetics · Art · Casual · Literature · Narrative · Pleasure · Political science · Sociology · Gender Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy · Music History and Culture · Psychology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |