In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being , Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black Being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence.
Centrally, Quashie theorizes Aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading poetic inhabitance in Black feminist literary texts by Lu.
As such, he makes a case for Black Aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study.
In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being , Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black Being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence