Black Elegies
$42.69
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
18 March 2025
Summary
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 Okwui Enwezor calls the “national emergency of black grief.” With her characteris…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262551724 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262551721 |
| Author: | Kimberly Juanita Brown |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 18 March 2025 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm |
| Series: | On Seeing |
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Included in Ms. Magazine’s February 2025 “Reads for the Rest of Us”
“Black Elegies has something to offer anyone who approaches with an honest heart. Writers and artists will find inspiration for their work. Photographers and filmmakers may find new ways to occupy a medium. Pastors and community leaders might draw upon Brown’s insights to reimagine lament for the communities they empower. Ultimately, Black Elegies is more than a meditation on mourning; it invites readers to see, hear and touch what hides in the shadow of loss that is the Black life.”
—Jordan Burton, The Presbyterian Outlook
About The Author
Kimberly Juanita Brown
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.
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