{"product_id":"bull-jean-dem-dey-back-9781737025566","title":"Bull-Jean \u0026 Dem\/Dey Back","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Sharon Bridgforth | Signe Harriday | Celeste Henery\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: 53rd State Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: 53rd State Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Women Authors\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ebull-jean \u0026amp; dem\/dey back\u003c\/em\u003e collects two performance\/novels centering Sharon Bridgforth's southern-Black-butch-sheroe, bull-jean.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst published by RedBone Press in 1998, the Lambda Literary Award-winning \u003cem\u003ethe bull-jean stories\u003c\/em\u003e chronicles the course of lovve returning in the Life-times of bull-dog-jean. Set in the rural 1920s south, \u003cem\u003ethe bull-jean stories \u003c\/em\u003eis an act of griot-anthropology, remembering the ancestor we never knew but always knew we needed--the raucous, sweet-talking, heart-aching wo'mn-lovvn-wo'mn bull-dog-jean and the fierce and beautiful community that surrounds her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTwenty-two years later, bull-dog-jean returns in \u003cem\u003ebull-jean\/we wake\u003c\/em\u003e. Grieving the loss of their elders, seeking healing, the Narrator calls forward bull-jean. Through a series of dreams, porch prayers, and visitations from cussing conjurers, Black Mermaids, children that fly, and shape-shifting ole folk, bull-jean and dem guide the Narrator towards a realization of the sustaining power of love, memory, community, ritual, and spiritual binding.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"53rd State Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47999507857559,"sku":"9781737025566","price":1015.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781737025566.webp?v=1783600859","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/bull-jean-dem-dey-back-9781737025566","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}