Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning - Paperback
$14.99
$19.95
-25%Quantity
01
Pay over time for orders over $35.00 with
Availability:In StockContributor:Kimberly Juanita BrownSeries:On SeeingPublish date:02/18/25Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262551724ISBN-10:262551721UPC:9780262551724Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Black Studies (Global), HistoryBook Topic:Contemporary (1945- )Size:7.70 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC58VSVX9M
Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning
A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature--everywhere, if you know how to see it. In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the elongated grief borne of sustained racial violence. Structured around the sensorial, the book moves through sight, sound, and touch to reveal what...
Series: On Seeing
Language:EnglishPublisher:MIT PressISBN-13:9780262551724ISBN-10:262551721UPC:9780262551724Book Category:Art, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Criticism & Theory, Black Studies (Global), HistoryBook Topic:Contemporary (1945- )Size:7.70 x 4.90 x 0.40 inchesWeight:0.4806Product ID:SC58VSVX9M
Kimberly Juanita Brown is the inaugural director of the Institute for Black Intellectual and Cultural Life at Dartmouth College where she is also Associate Professor of English and creative writing. She is the author of The Repeating Body: Slavery's Visual Resonance in the Contemporary.
Publisher: MIT Press
Contributor(s)
Author
Free shipping on orders over $75. Standard shipping takes 3-7 business days. Returns accepted within 30 days of purchase.