The déjà vu : Black dreams & Black time / Gabrielle Civil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Civil, Gabrielle, author.

Contributor:

Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Civil, Gabrielle.

Performance artists--United States--Biography.

Performance artists.

Poets, American--21st century--Biography.

Poets, American.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

317 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : Coffee House Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Gabrielle Civil mines black dreams and black time to reveal a vibrant archive of black feminist creative expressions. Emerging from the intersection of pandemic and uprising, the déjà vu activates forms both new and ancestral, drawing movement, speech, and lyric essay into performance memoir. As Civil considers Haitian tourist paintings, dance rituals, race at the movies, black feminist legacies, and more, she reflects on her personal losses and desires, speculates on black time, and dreams into expansive black life. With intimacy, humor, and verve, the déjà vu blurs boundaries between memory, grief, and love; then, now, and the future"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Double negatives (...into the deja vu...)

Afterimages (...take the art tour...)

Black dreams (...bring me all your heart melodies...)

After the end (...I could tell you how it started...)

Black time (...what happens if we take our time?...).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9781566896221

1566896223

OCLC:

1245656428