bull-jean & dem/dey backAuthor :
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Published : Thursday 22 December 2022
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bull-jean & dem/dey backA collects two performance/novels centering Sharon Bridgforthâ?Ts southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean. First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winningA the bull-jean storiesA chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south,A the bull-jean storiesA is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we neededâ?"the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching woâ?Tmn-lovvn-woâ?Tmn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her. Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns inA bull-jean/we wake. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations fromA cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.
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