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Black Elegies - (On Seeing) by Kimberly Juanita Brown (Paperback)

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  • 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.
  • About the Author: 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.
  • 168 Pages
  • Art, Criticism & Theory
  • Series Name: On Seeing

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"A extremely memorable and affecting study of elegy - in the form of an elegy itself - delivered in three parts: sight, sound, and touch with powerful analyses of the work of major figures like Toni Morrison, Carrie Mae Weems, Audre Lorde, and even Marvin Gaye, among others"--



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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 characteristic literary skill, Brown analyzes the work of major figures including Toni Morrison, Carrie Mae Weems, Audre Lorde, and Marvin Gaye, among others.

Brown contemplates recognizable sites of mourning: forced migration and enslavement, bodily violations, imprisonment and death. And she examines sites that do not register immediately as archives of grief: the landscape of southern U.S. slave plantations, a spontaneous street party, a quilt constructed out of the clothing worn by a loved one, a dance performance to hold the memory of history, and an aeolian harp installed at an institute of European art, among others. In this, the book offers a framework of mourning while black, within the parameters of contemporary artistic production. Brown asks: How do you mourn those you are not supposed to see? And where does the grief go? She shows us that grief is everywhere: "It spills out of photographs and modulates music. It hovers in the tenor and tone of cinematic performances. It resides in the body like an inspired concept, waiting for its articulation."

Black Elegies is the second title of On Seeing, a new publication series devoted to visual literacy. Publications foreground the political agency, critical insight, and social impact inscribed in visuality and representation. The MIT Press will publish each On Seeing volume as a print book, ebook, and open access digital edition created by Brown University Digital Publications.

The URL for this publication is https: //on-seeing-black-elegies.org.



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Included in Ms. Magazine's February 2025 "Reads for the Rest of Us"



About the Author



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.
Dimensions (Overall): 7.7 Inches (H) x 4.9 Inches (W) x .4 Inches (D)
Weight: .48 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 168
Genre: Art
Sub-Genre: Criticism & Theory
Series Title: On Seeing
Publisher: MIT Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Kimberly Juanita Brown
Language: English
Street Date: February 18, 2025
TCIN: 92234485
UPC: 9780262551724
Item Number (DPCI): 247-28-0061
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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