Sovereignty of Quiet Beyond Resistance in Black Culture

Name: Sovereignty of Quiet Beyond Resistance in Black Culture
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ISBN: 9780813553108

ISBN-10: 0813553105

ISBN-13: 9780813553108

Edition: 2012

Authors: Kevin Everod Quashie

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African American culture is often considered expressive, dramatic, and even defiant. InThe Sovereignty of Quiet, Kevin Quashie explores quiet as a different kind of expressiveness, one which characterizes a person’s desires, ambitions, hungers, vulnerabilities, and fears. Quiet is a metaphor for the inner life, and as such, enables a more nuanced understanding of black culture. The book revisits such iconic moments as Tommie Smith and John Carlos’s protest at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics and Elizabeth Alexander’s reading at the 2009 inauguration of Barack Obama. Quashie also examines such landmark texts as Gwendolyn Brooks’sMaud Martha, James Baldwin’sThe Fire Next Time, and Toni…

Book details

Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Publication date: 7/24/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 204
Size: 5.75" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English



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


Acknowledgments


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