Black aliveness, or a poetics of being /
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,...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Durham, North Carolina :
Duke University Press,
2021.
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| Series: | Black outdoors.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 238 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781478011873 1478011874 9781478014010 1478014016 |