Christina Sharpe’s Perpetual Present
Free from an autobiographical or narrative format that would encourage an epic spun out from a punctum, Christina Sharpe’s newest book, Ordinary Notes, casts…
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Caribbean Being and Becoming in “Fragments of Epic Memory”
In his 1992 Nobel Lecture The Antilles: Fragments of Epic Memory, Derek Walcott characterized Caribbean poetry as a remaking of fragmented memory. The Art…
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Acting Out: The Visibility of Blackness in the Work of Martine Syms
Hair flicks, flirtatious glances, side eye. Hands beckoning and clapping, a finger wagging in rebuke. Body language is highlighted in Borrowed Lady, an exhibition…
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