| Maroon Choreography Contributor(s): Ife, Fahima (Author) |
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ISBN: 1478013346 ISBN-13: 9781478013341 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $85.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2021 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Poetry | American - African American - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - Literary Criticism | American - General |
| Dewey: 818.609 |
| LCCN: 2020046222 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 6.22" W x 9.29" (0.79 lbs) 144 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about beyond what history tells us. As both poet and scholar, ife unsettles the history and idea of black fugitivity, troubling senses of historic knowing while moving inside the continuing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery. At the same time, they interrogate how writing itself can be a fugitive practice and a means to find a way out of ongoing containment, indebtedness, surveillance, and ecological ruin. Offering a philosophical performance in black study, ife prompts us to consider how we--in our study, in our mutual refusal, in our belatedness, in our habitual assemblage--linger beside the unknown. Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient |