... arms to you after you die,” Mame-Diarra Niang tells me, “is the earth. It's the ... him under their own home. The incident prompted Niang, a queer woman who had spent her adolescence ... might be missed at a first reading of Niang's statement is that it also quietly affirms ... the earth) that is normally opened to others, Niang's poetic phrasing implies that there are places, ... performs, historicizes, and envisions the two sides of Niang's statement: the disposability of queer lives in ... that persist despite that disposability.The title of Niang's performance-installation, Éthérée, means “ethereal” and is ...
Tópico(s): Caribbean and African Literature and Culture
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