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The Sovereignty of Quiet

Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

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The Sovereignty of Quiet

Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.

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0813553091

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.

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Rutgers University Press

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0813533678

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

By: Kevin Everod Quashie

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Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

(un)becoming the Subject

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Ultimately moves beyond these to propose a new cultural aesthetic that aims to center black women and their philosophies. Book jacket.

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The Sovereignty of Quiet

Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

By: Kevin Quashie

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Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

By: Kevin Quashie

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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205

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Rutgers University Press

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0813553113

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9780813553115

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

By: Kevin Quashie

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Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

By: Kevin Quashie

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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Duke University Press

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1478021322

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The Sovereignty of Quiet

The Sovereignty of Quiet

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory

The Sovereignty of Quiet

The Sovereignty of Quiet

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being

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