Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being

In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one...
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Author: Kevin Quashie
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Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being by Quashie, Kevin

Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being

Dhs. 879.40

Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being

Dhs. 879.40
Author: Kevin Quashie
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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 texts by Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, and Evie Shockley, among others, showing how their philosophical and creative thinking constitutes worldmaking. This worldmaking conceptualizes Blackness as capacious, relational beyond the normative terms of recognition--Blackness as a condition of oneness. Reading for poetic aliveness, then, becomes a means of exploring Black being rather than nonbeing and animates the ethical question "how to be." In this way, Quashie offers a Black feminist philosophy of being, which is nothing less than a philosophy of the becoming of the Black world.

Author: Kevin Quashie
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 02/26/2021
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9781478011873


Review Citation(s):
Choice 02/01/2022

About the Author
Kevin Quashie is Professor of English at Brown University and the author of The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture and Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject.

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