Kevin Quashie: The Sovereignty of Quiet

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Beschreibung

African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture.

The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander’s reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks’s Maud Martha, James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time, and Toni Morrison’s Sula to move beyond the emphasis on resistance, and to suggest that concepts like surrender, dreaming, and waiting can remind us of the wealth of black humanity.

Über den Autor

KEVIN QUASHIE is an associate professor of Afro-American studies at Smith College. He is the author of Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. Publicness, Silence, and the Sovereignty of the Interior

2. Not Double Consciousness but the Consciousness of Surrender

3. Maud Martha and the Practice of Paying Attention

4. Quiet, Vulnerability, and Nationalism

5. The Capacities of Waiting, the Expressiveness of Prayer

Conclusion

Acknowledgments
Permissions
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Details

Empfohlen (bis):	22
Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Genre:	Importe
Rubrik:	Literaturwissenschaft
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780813553108
ISBN-10:	0813553105
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Quashie, Kevin
Auflage:	None edition
Hersteller:	Rutgers University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	236 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Kevin Quashie
Erscheinungsdatum:	24.07.2012
Gewicht:	0,318 kg