bull-jean & dem/dey back

Name: bull-jean & dem/dey back
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SKU: 9781737025566
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By Sharon Bridgforth

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Bull-jean & Dem/dey Back by Sharon Bridgforth is an evocative exploration of identity, resilience, and community. The narrative vividly brings to life a vibrant, Southern Black lesbian experience through poetic storytelling, melding history with a visceral sense of place. It highlights themes of love, survival, and connection in a richly textured cultural tapestry.
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You might like this book if you enjoy lyrical storytelling and vivid explorations of identity and culture. Its rich narrative weaves together themes of history, love, and resilience, inviting you to immerse yourself in a beautifully crafted world.

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bull-jean & dem/dey back collects two performance/novels centring Sharon Bridgforth's southern-Black-butch-shero, bull-jean.

First published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning the bull-jean stories chronicles the course of love returning in the life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s South, the bull-jean stories is an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed — the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching woman-loving-woman bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.

Twenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in 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 from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting old folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realisation of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.

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Bull-jean & dem/dey back by Sharon Bridgforth is praised for its deep, soul-stirring prose and transformative impact on the reader. Critics highlight Bridgforth's ability to weave complex narratives that explore themes of love, ancestry, and identity with honesty and depth. Her work is described as life-giving, filled with powerful imagery and language that inspire readers to reflect on their own capacity for love and compassion.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781737025566

Publisher: 53rd State Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 22 December 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: 53rd State Press

Illustration: Illustrations

Contributors:

With Signe Harriday
With Celeste Henery

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 127.0mm

Height: 177.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 190

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About the Author

SharonBridgforth, Sharon is a 2020-2023 Playwrights' Center Core Member, a2022-2023 McKnight Fellow, a New Dramatists alum, and has received support fromThe Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, Creative Capital, MAP Fund and theNational Performance Network. Widely published, her work is featured inTeachingBlack: The Craft of Teaching on Black Life and Literature and Mouths of Rain: An Anthology of BlackLesbian Thought. Sharon's Lambda LiteraryAward-winning, the bull-jean stories inOctober/November 2022, directed by Signe Harriday. Sharon is Executive Producerand Host of the Who Yo People Is podcast series and herdatBlack Mermaid Man Lady/The Show is streaming on the Twin Cities PBSplatform.