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Maroon choreography / Fahima Ife.
Van Pelt Library PS3609.F35 M37 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ife, Fahima, 1983- author.
- Series:
- Black outdoors
- Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study
- Language:
- English
- Genre:
- Essays.
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 125 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- "Maroon Choreography is a philosophical performance in Black study. Comprised of three sections of poems and a lyrical essay, the book is written in an undisciplined tradition of Black radical thought. Fahima Ife's poems and essay question multiple ecologies in Southern Louisiana: its fraught climate, the toxicity of the air, water and soil, the continued uprooting of trees, the disappearance of the swamp, ecological ruin and its impact on life. Maroon Choreography feels alongside Fred Moten's theory of Blackness and considers Black sociality, or matters of coming together now in the 21st century. The book's central ideas emerge through the airy life force of the poems themselves. The poems question the ecological afterlives of 17th century Black fugitivity. The poems presuppose the afterlives of fugitivity are not a haunting or memory (as historical conceptions of time are generally understood), but a transient/transcendent global Black technology accessible by way of air. At work in these poems and essay are instances of deep listening, somatic movement, breathing, gravity, now, transcendence, surrealisms, pleasures, movements, dances, blacknesses, multiplicities, languages, music, air, and light. Maroon Choreography offers a way outside modernity's nominal/archival imposition, a way of losing the self in free movement, ritualistic dance, of coming together beyond inscription, of breaking out and into"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Recrudescence
- Porous Aftermath
- Nocturnal Work
- Maroon Choreography.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Ife, Fahima, 1983- Maroon choreography.
- ISBN:
- 9781478013341
- 1478013346
- 9781478014256
- 1478014253
- OCLC:
- 1198979284
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