Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (Black Outdoors: Innovations in the Poetics of Study)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

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“This admirable and richly textured book should be widely read not only by those inter-ested in Yoruba history and modern Nigeria but by all those who seek a mature under-standing of the intricate connections between local and national politics

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Jackson challenges what Clifford Geertz called the "thick description" of anthropological research through a multidisciplinary investigation of how the AHIJ use media and technology to define their public image in the twenty-first century

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