{"product_id":"on-the-very-edge-bidentities-in-michelle-cliffs-fiction-paperback","title":"On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eIan Kinane\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eOn the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction\u003c\/i\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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePartnered with poet Adrienne Rich and \"passing\" as white, Michelle Cliff's sexuality and cultural ethnicity were often invisible. Yet her acclaimed work--\u003ci\u003eAbeng\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNo Telephone to Heaven\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBodies of Water\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eIf I Could Write This in Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFree Enterprise\u003c\/i\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, \u003ci\u003eOn the Very Edge\u003c\/i\u003e will have far-reaching implications in the understanding of complex Caribbean identity politics and intersectional race, gender, and sexuality studies at large.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIan Kinane\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Popular Literature and Culture at the University of Roehampton, London. His books include \u003ci\u003eIan Fleming and the Politics of Ambivalence\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e Isn't It Ironic? Irony in Contemporary Popular Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDidactics and the Modern Robinsonade\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eTheorising Literary Islands: The Island Trope in Contemporary Robinsonade Narratives\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLandscapes of Liminality: Between Place and Space\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 164\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.38 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 20, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45537652932710,"sku":"9781496855152","price":63.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/6k1zqLd8_L9781496855152.webp?v=1776840642","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/on-the-very-edge-bidentities-in-michelle-cliffs-fiction-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}