Access In The Life And In The Spirit: Homoerotic Spirituality In African American Literature Narrated By Marlon Rachquel Moore Accessible As Digital

up the perceived tensions between the LGBTQ community and religious African Americans, Marlon Rachquel Moore examines how strategies of antihomophobic resistance dovetail into broader literary and cultural concerns.
In the Life and in the Spirit shows how creative writers integrate expressions of faith or the supernatural with sensuality, desire, and pleasure in a way that highlights a spectrum of black sexualities and gender expressions.
Through these fusions, African American writers enact queer spiritualities that situate the wellknown work of James Baldwin into a broader community of artists, including

Bruce Nugent, Ann Allen Shockley, Alice Walker, Langston Hughes, Jewelle Gomez, Becky Birtha, an d Octavia Butler.
In these texts fromto, Moore identifies a pervasive, affirming stance toward LGBTQ people and culture in African American literary production, Marlon Rachquel Moore is Assistant Professor of English at the University of North Carolina Wilmington, .