{"product_id":"the-lonely-letters-paperback","title":"The Lonely Letters - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAshon T. Crawley\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e, A tells Moth: \"Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding.\" But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley--writing as A--meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and a performance, \u003ci\u003eThe Lonely Letters\u003c\/i\u003e gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAshon T. Crawley is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and African American Studies at the University of Virginia and author of \u003ci\u003eBlackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 280\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.5 x 6.7 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 10, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42731184324671,"sku":"9781478008248","price":36.23,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/686d7cc389fa3987c294db6117e4bcbd.webp?v=1765128016","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/the-lonely-letters-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}