"On the Very Edge: Bidentities in Michelle Cliff''s Fiction uses the life and work of bisexual, biracial, and bicultural author Michelle Cliff (1946-2016) to develop an entirely new approach to intersectional cultural, race, and gender/sexuality studies that prioritizes "bi-ness" as a methodological tool. The book focuses not "simply" on bisexuality, biracialism, or biculturalism as isolated identity concepts; rather, it explores the very nature of these intersectional identity categories as configured byCliff. The text, therefore, represents a reclamation of bi identity in Cliff''s work as a much broader cultural, and not just sexual or racial, category, arguing that Cliff''s spaces and/or stages of "bi-ness" are in themselves significant in understandingcontemporary global identity politics, as well as in navigating complex and often damaging identity constructs. Partnered with poet Adrienne Rich and "passing" as white, Michelle Cliff''s sexuality and cultural ethnicity were often in
