{"product_id":"black-aliveness-or-a-poetics-of-being-hardcover-1","title":"Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Quashie\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eBlack Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being\u003c\/i\u003e, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters \u003ci\u003eBlack being\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eKevin Quashie is Professor of English at Brown University and the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.63 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 26, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703606702387,"sku":"9781478011873","price":173.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/ZzVGemc2b0I5aGR0N0oram4zWitIZz09_67f73d42-b7b8-4ab4-a55c-929b565f2d03.webp?v=1763334017","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/black-aliveness-or-a-poetics-of-being-hardcover-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}