Ordinary notes
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Physical Desc
379 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimilies ; 23 cm.
Status
Downtown Lansing - 2nd Floor-Non-Fiction
305.896 Sharpe
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305.896 Sharpe
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Published
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 367-375)
Description
"Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages—sometimes about language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature—always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life. At the heart of Ordinary Notes is the indelible presence of the author’s mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. 'I learned to see in my mother’s house,' writes Sharpe. 'I learned how not to see in my mother’s house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words.' Using these gifts and other ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to the page. She practices an aesthetic of "beauty as a method,' collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a 'Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness,' and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces." --publisher's website
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Sharpe, C. E. (2023). Ordinary notes (First American edition.). Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. 2023. Ordinary Notes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. Ordinary Notes Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Sharpe, Christina Elizabeth. Ordinary Notes First American edition., Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023.
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