Cover the The Quiet Zone, with an abstract black liquid sculpture with legs
Major props to Ideas on Fire author Petal Kimberly Samuel on the publication of The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance, out now from @rutgersupress.bsky.social! 🎊
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Also HUGE shout out to @ideasonfirephd.bsky.social who provided thoughtful, expert, and timely editorial and indexing support for the book at multiple stages of its development. I highly recommend them! Check out their services here: ideasonfire.net.
Thank you so much Peter!!! 🥲 I couldn't have done it without your many years of guidance, mentorship, friendship, and intellectual community! Thank you and the inimitable JP for all you both did to help make this possible!! 💛🥂💛
This means so much Sarah!! Thank you so much for your support and for the example of your own brilliant work! 🥲💛
Ahahaha will do!! 🥂 And thank you so much for supporting the book! 💛
It's almost time! So excited to celebrate my book's birthday this week--The Quiet Zone: Caribbean Expressive Cultures and the Feminist Aesthetics of Disturbance (Rutgers UP) is coming soon - Tues Jan 13th! 🤭📚 @rutgersupress.bsky.social
Pre-order here: www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/the-quiet-zo...
Honoring the memory of a literary giant who has become an ancestor Velma Pollard (born 1937). A Jamaican poet and fiction writer, among Pollard’s most noteworthy works are Shame Trees Don’t Grow Here (1991). She is the sister of Erna Brodber, another Jamaican literary treasure.
An excerpt from the linked article, which reads: "If maritime metaphors grapple continuously with how to map Blackness’s trajectories—our relationships to space, the environment, our history, and each other—spacetime metaphors may be more interested in sensing and, thereby, elaborating new ways of knowing: they press on the ways we fail to adequately know and name the fullness of Blackness’s meanings, locations, enactments, and possibilities."
"What openings does spacetime provide that the maritime, perhaps, cannot as readily support?" — from our latest issue, read Petal Samuel's "Black Gravity, or a Hidden History of Empire" here: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
differences 35.2 is out now! — edited by Shoniqua Roach, "Inside the Black (W)hole" features essays from Moya Bailey, Sharon P. Holland, Amber Jamilla Musser, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, and more: read.dukeupress.edu/differences/...
