{"product_id":"on-the-very-edge-bidentities-in-michelle-cliffs-fiction-paperback-softback-9781496855152","title":"On the Very Edge; Bidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496855152","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eOn the Very Edge\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBidentities in Michelle Cliff's Fiction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eIan Kinane (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496855152\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e164 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 cm, 0.245 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607727010072,"sku":"9781496855152","price":21.56,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/on-the-very-edge-bidentities-in-michelle-cliffs-fiction-paperback-softback-9781496855152","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}