Honeypot

Black Southern Women Who Love Women

E. Patrick Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

256 Seiten

2019
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-0653-4 (ISBN)

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E. Patrick Johnson's Honeypot opens with the fictional trickster character Miss B. barging into the home of Dr. EPJ, informing him that he has been chosen to collect and share the stories of her people. With little explanation, she whisks the reluctant Dr. EPJ away to the women-only world of Hymen, where she serves as his tour guide as he bears witness to the real-life stories of queer Black women throughout the American South. The women he meets come from all walks of life and recount their experiences on topics ranging from coming out and falling in love to mother/daughter relationships, religion, and political activism. As Dr. EPJ hears these stories, he must grapple with his privilege as a man and as an academic, and in the process he gains insights into patriarchy, class, sex, gender, and the challenges these women face. Combining oral history with magical realism and poetry, Honeypot is an engaging and moving book that reveals the complexity of identity while offering a creative method for scholarship to represent the lives of other people in a rich and dynamic way.

E. Patrick Johnson is Carlos Montezuma Professor of Performance Studies and African American Studies at Northwestern University and the author and editor of several books, most recently No Tea, No Shade: New Writings in Black Queer Theory, also published by Duke University Press. Alexis Pauline Gumbs is Visiting Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts at the University of Minnesota and author of M Archive and Spill, both also published by Duke University Press.

Foreword / Alexis Pauline Gumbs ix
Preface. You Catch More Bees with Honey Than with Vinegar xi
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction. The Adventures of Miss B. and Me 1
1. The Hive 5
2. Blessed Bee 55
3. Honeybee Blues 69
4. Honey Love 112
5. Beebop and Beeswax 132
6. All Hail the Queen (Bee) 153
Epilogue. Flight 220
Appendix. List of Honeybees 223
Notes 227
Index 229

Erscheinungsdatum	18.10.2019
Zusatzinfo	2 illustrations
Verlagsort	North Carolina
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	340 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4780-0653-6 / 1478006536
ISBN-13	978-1-4780-0653-4 / 9781478006534
Zustand	Neuware