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Randy P. Conner
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 Cassell's
Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit : Gay, Lesbian,
Bisexual, and Transgender Lore
by Randy P. Conner, David Hatfield Sparks,
Mariya Sparks
Did you know that in medieval folklore a person
might change sex by passing under a rainbow? Or that same-sex
unions have been celebrated by many of the world's peoples? Or
that Sappho, Mishima, Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and Boy George
number among those who have explored the spiritual dimension of
gender and sexuality in their works? The Encyclopedia contains
over 1500 entries, with a comprehensive index and bibliography,
and a foreword by Gloria E. Anzaldua (editor of This Bridge Called
My Back). Randy P. Conner is the author of Blossom of Bone:
Reclaiming the Connections Between Homoeroticism and the Sacred
(1993). David H. Sparks is a writer and ethnomusicologist whose
work has been published in the Afro-Hispanic Review and elsewhere.
Mariya Sparks, their daughter, is an actor and writer, whose play
Primas premiered as a film in the 1995 San Francisco Gay and
Lesbian Film Festival.
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Biography
Born in Texas, lives in Bay Area of n.
California; queer parent, with her biol. father David Sparks, of
actor Mariah Sparks; has taught literature, humanities,
comparative religion; most recently, graduate seminar in Queer
Spirit, Public Intellectuals Program, Florida Atlantic University
(spring 2001)
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Fields of Study
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Queer Studies |
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African-Diasporic
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Pre-modern and
19th cent. French literature (esp. Baudelaire);
Pre-Christian spiritual traditions |
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Published Works
Cassell's
Encyclopedia of Queer Myth, Symbol, and Spirit (Cassell
Academic, 1997)
Blossom
of Bone : Reclaiming the Connections Between Homoeroticism and the
Sacred (Harper SF, 1993)
Articles in Queerly
Phrased (Oxford U. Pr.), Gay & Lesbian Review, Parabola,
etc.
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Current Projects
At the Crossroads of Desire: Same-Sex Intimacy
and Gender Diversity in African-Diasporic Religions (for
Haworth/Harrington Park); The Mirror of Jeanne Duval: African-Diasporic
Spirituality and Baudelaire's Visionary Poetics.
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