In the Quare Light of the Moon: Poverty, Sexuality and Makeshift Masculinity in Moonlight

This essay performs a quare reading of the film Moonlight to demonstrate how the film illuminates an alternative path to sexual selfhood that is paradoxically facilitated not by access to material wealth or socioeconomic mobility, but rather through abject poverty. Through what the author refers to...

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Published in:The Western journal of black studies 2019-09, Vol.43 (3-4), p.70
Main Author: Johnson, E. Patrick
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Masculinity
Portrayals
Poverty
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Summary:This essay performs a quare reading of the film Moonlight to demonstrate how the film illuminates an alternative path to sexual selfhood that is paradoxically facilitated not by access to material wealth or socioeconomic mobility, but rather through abject poverty. Through what the author refers to as a "makeshift masculinity, " the use of Yoruba cosmology, and an analysis of sexuality, the essay traces the various stages of the protagonist Little/Chiron/Black's life and his relationship with his friend, Kevin, to highlight how a working-class epistemology might offer a different understanding of black same-sex desire.
ISSN:0197-4327