{"product_id":"on-the-very-edge-ian-kinane-9781496855145","title":"On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction\u003c\/em\u003e uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946-2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender\/sexuality studies that prioritizes \"bi-ness\" as a methodological tool. The book focuses not \"simply\" on bisexuality, biracialism, or biculturalism as isolated identity concepts; rather, it explores the very nature of these intersectional identity categories as configured by Cliff. The text, therefore, represents a reclamation of bi identity in Cliff's work as a much broader cultural, and not just sexual or racial, category, arguing that Cliff's spaces and\/or stages of \"bi-ness\" are in themselves significant in understanding contemporary global identity politics, as well as in navigating complex and often damaging identity constructs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePartnered with poet Adrienne Rich and \"passing\" as white, Michelle Cliff's sexuality and cultural ethnicity were often invisible. Yet her acclaimed work--\u003cem\u003eAbeng\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eNo Telephone to Heaven\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eIf I Could Write This in Fire\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFree Enterprise\u003c\/em\u003e, and others--demonstrates the intersections between bisexuality, biracialism, and biculturalism in often profound ways. Drawing on original research, interviews, diaries, editorials, and other correspondences, \u003cem\u003eOn the Very Edge\u003c\/em\u003e will have far-reaching implications in the understanding of complex Caribbean identity politics and intersectional race, gender, and sexuality studies at large.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ian Kinane\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496855140\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496855145\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University Press of Mississippi\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/06\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 164\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.91lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Ian Kinane","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451182108927,"sku":"9781496855145","price":99.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_68a3cb44-ce81-4644-9a9b-0a9a3fed7765.jpg?v=1735876700","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/on-the-very-edge-ian-kinane-9781496855145","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}