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.
Author: Fahima Ife
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 09/22/2021
Pages: 144
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.44lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d
ISBN13: 9781478014256
ISBN10: 1478014253
BISAC Categories:
- Poetry | American | African American & Black
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Literary Criticism | American | General
About the Author
fahima ife is Assistant Professor of English at Louisiana State University.