The sovereignty of quiet : beyond resistance in black culture.

By:

Quashie, Kevin Everod

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Piscataway : Rutgers University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resource (v, 193 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780813553115
0813553113
0813553091
9780813553092
1280691719
9781280691713
9786613668653
6613668656

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Sovereignty of Quiet.DDC classification:

810.9/896073 23

LOC classification:

PS508.N3 Q83 2012

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Contents:

Introduction: why quiet -- Publicness, silence, and the sovereignty of the interior -- Not double consciousness but the consciousness of surrender -- Maud Martha and the practice of paying attention -- Quiet, vulnerability, and nationalism -- The capacities of waiting, the expressiveness of prayer -- Conclusion: to be one.

Summary: African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.

African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant, and this matrix has dominated our understanding of black communities and texts. In The Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores how a different kind of expressiveness, from protests to readings to landmark texts, as represented in the idea of quiet could change common conceptions and provide a more nuanced view of black culture.