{"product_id":"ordinary-notes-hardcover","title":"Ordinary Notes - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eChristina Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCritically acclaimed author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Christina Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty and possibility\" (Saidiya Hartman). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA singular achievement, \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAt the heart of \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Notes\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e4-color art throughout\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristina Sharpe\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003ci\u003eIn the Wake: On Blackness and Being\u003c\/i\u003e--named by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eGuardian \u003c\/i\u003eas one of the best books of 2016--and \u003ci\u003eMonstrous Intimacies: Making Post-Slavery Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e. She is currently the Canada Research Chair in Black Studies in the Humanities at York University, in Toronto, Canada, where she lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 392\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.17 x 9.08 x 6.59 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 25, 2023\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42696999370815,"sku":"9780374604486","price":42.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/ae99703ba85a8356930b40e9bd545f34.webp?v=1765008096","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/ordinary-notes-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}