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Maroon choreography
- Title
- Maroon choreography / Fahima Ife.
- Author
- Ife, Fahima, 1983-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- ©2021
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | Sc E 22-818 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 21-8039 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- xiii, 125 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Maroon Choreography is a philosophical performance in Black study. Comprised of three sections of poems and a lyrical essay, the book is written in an undisciplined tradition of Black radical thought. Fahima Ife's poems and essay question multiple ecologies in Southern Louisiana: its fraught climate, the toxicity of the air, water and soil, the continued uprooting of trees, the disappearance of the swamp, ecological ruin and its impact on life. Maroon Choreography feels alongside Fred Moten's theory of Blackness and considers Black sociality, or matters of coming together now in the 21st century. The book's central ideas emerge through the airy life force of the poems themselves. The poems question the ecological afterlives of 17th century Black fugitivity. The poems presuppose the afterlives of fugitivity are not a haunting or memory (as historical conceptions of time are generally understood), but a transient/transcendent global Black technology accessible by way of air. At work in these poems and essay are instances of deep listening, somatic movement, breathing, gravity, now, transcendence, surrealisms, pleasures, movements, dances, blacknesses, multiplicities, languages, music, air, and light. Maroon Choreography offers a way outside modernity's nominal/archival imposition, a way of losing the self in free movement, ritualistic dance, of coming together beyond inscription, of breaking out and into"--
- Series Statement
- Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of study
- Uniform Title
- Black outdoors.
- Subject
- 2000-2099
- Black people > Race identity > Poetry
- African Americans > Race identity > Poetry
- Fugitive slaves > Poetry
- Fugitive slave communities > Poetry
- American poetry > African Americans > Women authors
- American poetry > 21st century
- American fiction > African Americans > Women authors
- American fiction > 21st century
- American poetry
- Genre/Form
- Essays.
- Poetry.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Contents
- Overture -- Recrudescence -- Porous aftermath -- Nocturnal work -- Maroon choreography (a lyrical essay on form).
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-818
- ISBN
- 9781478013341
- 1478013346
- 9781478014256
- 1478014253
- LCCN
- 2020046222
- OCLC
- 1198979284
- Author
- Ife, Fahima, 1983- author.
- Title
- Maroon choreography / Fahima Ife.
- Publisher
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Black outdoors : innovations in the poetics of studyBlack outdoors.
- Chronological Term
- 2000-2099
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Ife, Fahima, 1983- Maroon choreography. Durham : Duke University Press, 2021. 9781478021568 (DLC) 2020046223
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-818JFE 21-8039