Wesley, DeMointé T.2018-02-272018-02-272017-10-12http://hdl.handle.net/10657/2611Considering today’s sociopolitical climate and the advent of the “Black Lives Matter” movement, I hope to continue my research on the literature of Morrison and other Black women/queer men writers and how their fiction can serve not only as a source of escape for Black Americans, but also as a site of theorizing about the possibility of Black life and true Black freedom, and of imagining alternative modes of Black existence, of various radical elsewheres.en-USThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).In Search of 'The Clearing': Blackness and Being in Toni Morrison's BelovedPoster