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Left turns in brown study / Sandra Ruiz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ruiz, Sandra, 1977- author.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection
- Writing matters! (Duke University Press)
- Writing matters!
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grief--Poetry.
- Grief.
- Grief in literature.
- Minorities in literature.
- Postcolonialism in literature.
- Literature and race--United States.
- Literature and race.
- American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (138 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "Left Turns in Brown Study is a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the entwinement of study and mourning. Sandra Ruiz writes for and with a chorus of departed voices, from deceased teachers to illiterate ancestors to victims of colonial violence, in order to grapple with grief and the way it is carried by minoritarian subjects. Ruiz proposes "brown study," a term first used in the sixteenth century to denote the act of depressive study, as key for understanding the ways that Brownness is perpetually constructed through the grievance of colonial encroachment and citational practice. Working from an archive of Black and Brown activism and theory, Ruiz creates a polyphonic and typographically experimental text that explores study as an emancipatory practice. Ruiz builds a minoritarian citational ethics of Black and Brown theory that will be crucial to those theorizing Latinx and minoritarian aesthetics"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The return (where we were & will be again) : an entry
- The preturn
- If we were dead
- Juango & Roland
- The past of an image
- Splitting air
- Where the timid take their nose for a walk
- Miscarried
- For the people from the stars
- Inner city juice boxes
- blemish (titled twice)
- Academia descended : emancipatory love words
- Aha! In fragments
- Reading debts
- To be soft
- Necropolitical feminism
- Let's touch
- Incompletion as verse
- Kimchi & tacos
- I guess I forgive you
- Titled twice (blemish)
- Las Eloisas
- With Juan Gabriel y Camila
- Loneliness property
- Fog
- Suddenly a sense
- bendición, papi
- Found in undertone
- Friendless
- OOOOOOOOOOOOOO
- AA : academia ascended
- La Luz not mine
- Watching dreams con Lord Lydia
- Tainted live with a desk
- Score for the sand
- I remember us talking About Lacan through J
- Anybody's anybody
- The earless shark or still a janitor's kid
- December's third : the endnote
- Flawed I'm possible too or flawed impossible to
- The future of the future
- Ephemerality's breeze
- Epilogues & circles
- Altar girls en fajardo
- End with birds (once we all flew)
- Unbodying grunt
- Basquiat's ride
- Momentum's secret
- With we
- Ten scenes in gargoyles
- Premonitions : unturned.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Ruiz, Sandra, 1977- Left turns in brown study.
- ISBN:
- 9781478059110
- 1478059117
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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