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Black aliveness, or a poetics of being / Kevin Quashie.
Van Pelt Library BH301.B53 Q37 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quashie, Kevin Everod, author.
- Series:
- Black outdoors
- Black outdoors: innovations in the poetics of study
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Aesthetics, Black.
- Black people--Race identity.
- Black people.
- Aesthetics in literature.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 238 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being considers aliveness through the aesthetic doings of poems and essays, through the "imagine a black world" imperative that radiates as the operating ethos of the made-text. In such imagining, the matter of black humanity does not have to be argued for; in this state of aesthetic existence, being and becoming can unfurl. One is alive, one is alive, and this aliveness alights an encounter with the unanswerable ethical query, "how to be." Black Aliveness, then, is a practice of reading as if one is in a black world, as if the reading one is a one, in the relational sense, in the philosophical sense of that pronoun, "one" being a word that allows the self to abstract itself in an instance of study"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Aliveness
- Aliveness and Relation
- Aliveness and Oneness
- Aliveness and Aesthetics
- Aliveness in Two Essays
- Aliveness and Ethics
- Again, Aliveness.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Quashie, Kevin Everod Black aliveness, or a poetics of being
- ISBN:
- 9781478011873
- 1478011874
- 9781478014010
- 1478014016
- OCLC:
- 1157948382
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