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Amy Sherald - The World We Make (Hardcover): Amy Sherald Amy Sherald - The World We Make (Hardcover)
Amy Sherald; Text written by Kevin Quashie, Jenni Sorkin; Interview by Ta-Nehisi Coates
R1,475 R1,131 Discovery Miles 11 310 Save R344 (23%) In Stock
Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Paperback): Kevin Quashie Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Paperback)
Kevin Quashie
R643 R576 Discovery Miles 5 760 Save R67 (10%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Hardcover): Kevin Quashie Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Hardcover)
Kevin Quashie
R2,327 R2,106 Discovery Miles 21 060 Save R221 (9%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

The Sovereignty of Quiet - Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (Hardcover): Kevin Quashie The Sovereignty of Quiet - Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (Hardcover)
Kevin Quashie
R2,937 Discovery Miles 29 370 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person's desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture. The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos's protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander's reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison's Sula to move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory - (Un)Becoming the Subject (Paperback): Kevin Quashie Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory - (Un)Becoming the Subject (Paperback)
Kevin Quashie
R823 Discovery Miles 8 230 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

In Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory, Kevin Everod Quashie explores the metaphor of the "girl-friend" as a new way of understanding three central concepts of cultural studies: self, memory, and language. He considers how the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Ama Ara Aidoo, Dionne Brand, photographer Lorna Simpson, and many others, inform debates over the concept of identity. Quashie argues that these authors and artists replace the notion of a stable, singular identity with the concept of the self developing in a process both communal and perpetually fluid, a relationship that functions in much the same way that an adult woman negotiates with her girlfriend(s). He suggests that memory itself is corporeal, a literal body that is crucial to the process of becoming. Quashie also explores the problem language poses for the black woman artist and her commitment to a mastery that neither colonizes nor excludes. The analysis throughout interacts with schools of thought such as psychoanalysis, postmodernism, and post-colonialism, but ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic, one that ultimately aims to center black women and their philosophies.

The Sovereignty of Quiet - Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (Paperback): Kevin Quashie The Sovereignty of Quiet - Beyond Resistance in Black Culture (Paperback)
Kevin Quashie
R817 Discovery Miles 8 170 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person's desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture. The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos's protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander's reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks's Maud Martha, James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison's Sula to move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.

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