Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

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Daunt Books
25 April 2023

Memoirs; Literary essays; History; Black & Asian studies

Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes is a dazzlingly inventive and powerful exploration of Black life, art, language, beauty and memory. Its more than three hundred notes collect into startling, rigorously constructed, beautiful layers, ranging across history, photography and literature to attend to everyday Black existence. Sharpe's consideration of Black life's ordinary-extraordinary dimensions shape-shifts through her mother's aesthetic of beauty as a method, gathers entries toward a dictionary of untranslatable Blackness, and probes sites of memory and memorials. A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge from the ruins, forging a new literary form as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces. The result is a multiverse of immense care, feeling and study.

By: Christina Sharpe
Imprint: Daunt Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 159mm, Width: 222mm,
ISBN: 9781914198144
ISBN 10: 191419814X
Pages: 382
Publication Date: 25 April 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Christina Sharpe is an American writer and academic of literature and Black studies. She is currently a Professor in the department of humanities at York University, Canada, and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Ryerson University. Sharpe is the author of Monstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects (Duke University Press, 2010) and In the Wake: On Blackness and Being (Duke University Press, 2016)

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Ordinary Notes

Christina Sharpe

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