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Black aliveness, or a poetics of being / Kevin Quashie.

By: Quashie, Kevin Everod [author.].
Material type: TextTextSeries: Black outdoors: Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2021Description: 238 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781478011873; 1478011874; 9781478014010; 1478014016.Subject(s): Aesthetics, Black | Blacks -- Race identity | Aesthetics in literature | Identity (Psychology) in literatureAdditional physical formats: Online version:: Black aliveness, or a poetics of beingDDC classification: 809.1/9896
Contents:
Aliveness -- Aliveness and Relation -- Aliveness and Oneness -- Aliveness and Aesthetics -- Aliveness in Two Essays -- Aliveness and Ethics -- Again, Aliveness.
Summary: "Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being considers aliveness through the aesthetic doings of poems and essays, through the "imagine a black world" imperative that radiates as the operating ethos of the made-text. In such imagining, the matter of black humanity does not have to be argued for; in this state of aesthetic existence, being and becoming can unfurl. One is alive, one is alive, and this aliveness alights an encounter with the unanswerable ethical query, "how to be." Black Aliveness, then, is a practice of reading as if one is in a black world, as if the reading one is a one, in the relational sense, in the philosophical sense of that pronoun, "one" being a word that allows the self to abstract itself in an instance of study"-- Provided by publisher.
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Print book for loan Krauth Memorial Branch Philadelphia General Collection Krauth Memorial Branch BH301.B53 Q37 2021 1 Available 31794003181485

Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-225) and index.

Aliveness -- Aliveness and Relation -- Aliveness and Oneness -- Aliveness and Aesthetics -- Aliveness in Two Essays -- Aliveness and Ethics -- Again, Aliveness.

"Black Aliveness, or a Poetics of Being considers aliveness through the aesthetic doings of poems and essays, through the "imagine a black world" imperative that radiates as the operating ethos of the made-text. In such imagining, the matter of black humanity does not have to be argued for; in this state of aesthetic existence, being and becoming can unfurl. One is alive, one is alive, and this aliveness alights an encounter with the unanswerable ethical query, "how to be." Black Aliveness, then, is a practice of reading as if one is in a black world, as if the reading one is a one, in the relational sense, in the philosophical sense of that pronoun, "one" being a word that allows the self to abstract itself in an instance of study"-- Provided by publisher.