1
of
1
Ordinary Notes
Book Hero Magic crafted this summary to help describe this book. While it's new and still
learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Summary
Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
$3699
Unit price
/
Unavailable
AVAILABLE WITH SUPPLIER
Ships from our Auckland warehouse within 3-4 weeks
Found a better price? Request a price match
Ordinary Notes
$3699
Unit price
/
Unavailable
Book Hero Magic created this recommendation. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! IS THIS YOUR NEXT READ?
Ordinary Notes
These Black notes may land in silence or a tone, a sound,a pitch, a record, or an observation made with care; thesenotes might just reach you across distance, time andspace, and with them you may be 'held/and held'.
Book Hero Magic formatted this description to make it easier to read. While it's new and
still learning, it may not be perfect - your
feedback is welcome!
Description
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.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781914198144
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 25 April 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Illustration: Photography
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 222.0mm
Height: 159.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 382
About the Author
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)
More from Biography & Memoir
View all-
-
-
-
-
The Bookseller at the End of the World
Hardback$3299Elsewhere:$3899Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
Leading Under Pressure
Paperback$3199Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
-
-
-
-
Always Home, Always Homesick
Hardback$3500Elsewhere:$3999Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today -
The Third Gilmore Girl
Paperback$3600Elsewhere:$4000Unit price /UnavailableIn StockShips today
Why buy from us?
Book Hero is not a chain store or big box retailer. We're an independent 100% NZ-owned business on a mission to help more Kiwis rediscover a love of books and reading!
Service & Delivery
Our warehouse in Auckland holds over 80,000 books and puzzles in-stock so you're not waiting for your order to arrive from overseas.
Auckland Bookstore
We're primarily an online store, but for your convenience you can pick up your order for free from our bookstore, which is right next door to our warehouse in Hobsonville.
Our Gifting Service
Books make wonderful thoughtful gifts and we're here to help with gift-wrapping and cards. We can even send your gift directly to your loved one.
