{"product_id":"on-the-very-edge-bidentities-in-michelle-cliffs-fiction-9781496855145","title":"On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction","description":"\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMichelle Cliff, partnered with poet Adrienne Rich and \"passing\" as white, had an often-invisible sexuality and cultural identity. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50869811380498,"sku":"9781496855145","price":108.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_82b71f94-b6a1-414c-98dc-f17455ebbc80.jpg?v=1744275762","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/on-the-very-edge-bidentities-in-michelle-cliffs-fiction-9781496855145","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}