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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