{"product_id":"9781620975763","title":"Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of Black Lesbian Thought","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press’s perennial seller \u003ci\u003eWords of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eA groundbreaking collection tracing the history of intellectual thought by Black Lesbian writers, in the tradition of The New Press’s perennial seller \u003ci\u003eWords of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Briona Simone Jones’s anthology \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e is an audacious, unapologetic, transgressive collection of Black ‘queer’ writing across genre, time, identity, age, and political leanings. This sister\/companion to \u003ci\u003eWords of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, published thirty years ago, makes visible—again—our passionate and unwavering commitments to the eradication of all oppressions. It bears witness to the necessity and power of the field of Black Lesbian Studies and is a love offering to us all.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Beverly Guy-Sheftall, Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies at Spelman College and editor of \u003ci\u003eWords of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing over the past 200 years. \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall's classic \u003ci\u003eWords of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e gathers writers including Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Barbara Jordan, and Audre Lorde to address pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out,” and the erotic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly maps a genealogy of Black lesbian works from the pre-Harlem Renaissance to contemporary writers sparking new modes of thinking about the intellectual inheritance of Black lesbians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfrican American lesbian writers and theorists have made extraordinary contributions to feminist theory, activism, and writing over the past 200 years. \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e, the companion anthology to Beverly Guy-Sheftall's classic \u003ci\u003eWords of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, traces the long history of intellectual thought produced by Black Lesbian writers, spanning the nineteenth century through the twenty-first century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUsing “Black Lesbian” as a capacious signifier, \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e includes writing by Black women who have shared intimate and loving relationships with other women, as well as Black women who see bonding as mutual, Black women who have self-identified as lesbian, Black women who have written about Black Lesbians, and Black women who theorize about and see the word lesbian as a political descriptor that disrupts and critiques capitalism, heterosexism, and heteropatriarchy. Taking its title from a poem by Audre Lorde, \u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e gathers writers including Alice Dunbar-Nelson, Barbara Jordan, and Audre Lorde to address pervasive issues such as misogynoir and anti-blackness while also attending to love, romance, “coming out,” and the erotic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eMouths of Rain\u003c\/i\u003e brilliantly maps a genealogy of Black lesbian works from the pre-Harlem Renaissance to contemporary writers sparking new modes of thinking about the intellectual inheritance of Black lesbians.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"New Press, The","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47058215534832,"sku":"9781620975763","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781620975763_p0.jpg?v=1763855614","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781620975763","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}