Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being

(Part of the Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study Series)

by Kevin Quashie

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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...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:1478014016

ISBN13:9781478014010

Release Date:February 2021

Publisher:Duke University Press

Length:248 Pages

Weight:0.80 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Social Science Social Sciences

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