Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being
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Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

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  2. English
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Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9781478014010
9781478011873
eBook ISBN
9781478021322
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Criticism Theory
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Introduction. Aliveness
  4. 1. Aliveness and Relation
  5. 2. Aliveness and Oneness
  6. 3. Aliveness and Aesthetics
  7. 4. Aliveness in Two Essays
  8. 5. Aliveness and Ethics
  9. Conclusion. Again, Aliveness
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Notes
  12. Bibliography
  13. Permissions
  14. Index

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