Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being write by Kevin Quashie. This book was released on 2021-02-05. Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading poetic inhabitance in Black feminist literary texts by Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, and Evie Shockley, among others, showing how their philosophical and creative thinking constitutes worldmaking. This worldmaking conceptualizes Blackness as capacious, relational beyond the normative terms of recognition—Blackness as a condition of oneness. Reading for poetic aliveness, then, becomes a means of exploring Black being rather than nonbeing and animates the ethical question “how to be.” In this way, Quashie offers a Black feminist philosophy of being, which is nothing less than a philosophy of the becoming of the Black world.
Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory
Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory write by Kevin Everod Quashie. This book was released on 2004. Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.
The Sovereignty of Quiet
The Sovereignty of Quiet - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Sovereignty of Quiet write by Kevin Quashie. This book was released on 2012-07-25. The Sovereignty of Quiet available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture. The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander’s reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison’s Sula to move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.
The Racial Unfamiliar
The Racial Unfamiliar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Racial Unfamiliar write by John Brooks. This book was released on 2022-08-30. The Racial Unfamiliar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The works of African American authors and artists are too often interpreted through the lens of authenticity. They are scrutinized for “positive” or “negative” representations of Black people and Black culture or are assumed to communicate some truth about Black identity or the “Black experience.” However, many contemporary Black artists are creating works that cannot be slotted into such categories. Their art resists interpretation in terms of conventional racial discourse; instead, they embrace opacity, uncertainty, and illegibility. John Brooks examines a range of abstractionist, experimental, and genre-defying works by Black writers and artists that challenge how audiences perceive and imagine race. He argues that literature and visual art that exceed the confines of familiar conceptions of Black identity can upend received ideas about race and difference. Considering photography by Roy DeCarava, installation art by Kara Walker, novels by Percival Everett and Paul Beatty, drama by Suzan-Lori Parks, and poetry by Robin Coste Lewis, Brooks pinpoints a shared aesthetic sensibility. In their works, the devices that typically make race feel familiar are instead used to estrange cultural assumptions about race. Brooks contends that when artists confound expectations about racial representation, the resulting disorientation reveals the incoherence of racial ideologies. By showing how contemporary literature and art ask audiences to question what they think they know about race, The Racial Unfamiliar offers a new way to understand African American cultural production.
The Poetics of Difference
The Poetics of Difference - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Poetics of Difference write by Mecca Jamilah Sullivan. This book was released on 2021-10-19. The Poetics of Difference available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Modern Language Association (MLA)’s William Sanders Scarborough Prize From Audre Lorde, Ntozake Shange, and Bessie Head, to Zanele Muholi, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Missy Elliott, Black women writers and artists across the African Diaspora have developed nuanced and complex creative forms. Mecca Jamilah Sullivan ventures into the unexplored spaces of black women’s queer creative theorizing to learn its languages and read the textures of its forms. Moving beyond fixed notions, Sullivan points to a space of queer imagination where black women invent new languages, spaces, and genres to speak the many names of difference. Black women’s literary cultures have long theorized the complexities surrounding nation and class, the indeterminacy of gender and race, and the multiple meanings of sexuality. Yet their ideas and work remain obscure in the face of indifference from Western scholarship. Innovative and timely, The Poetics of Difference illuminates understudied queer contours of black women’s writing.
