Naming the Body Literary Criticism & Theory elegant vision of an urban

elegant vision of an urban paradise slowly revealing its imperfections to the tune of its visitors' rhythms is a masterpiece--a future classic for generations to come

After a heart-wrenching breakup with her girlfriend and a shocking incident at her job

/ De best we can do is fe try / To fight de despair drawin' night: / Den we might conquer by an' by- / Dat we might do

Kari Samantha McAllister

the rift grows deeper

Naming the Body Literary Criticism & Theory elegant vision of an urbanNaming the Body: A Queer Woman's Restorative Mapping of the Self celebrates and reclaims a queer woman's uprooted, mothering, ailing body and an erased identity through memory and language. An identity that just three decades ago could not be claimed because women, especially queer women, didn't have the language to signify and embrace them. This collection of sixteen units of text, freeing itself from all form or expectations, is written with