Ruiz, Sandra
Left Turns in Brown Study (Writing Matters!)
- ISBN 13:
- 9781478030126
- author:
- Ruiz, Sandra
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Duke University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2023
- Pages:
- 152
- Dimensions:
- 22.9 x 15.2 x 0.9 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Poetry, General, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Left Turns in Brown Study by Sandra Ruiz is a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the interlacing forms of study and mourning. Ruiz explores how study can be an emancipatory practice, drawing on Black and Brown activism and theory.
The book weaves together poetry, memoir, lyrical essay, and vignettes to examine study as a means of understanding loss and suffering, while also highlighting the possibility for more abundant ways of living. Ruiz proposes "brown study" as a key concept for understanding how Brownness is intertwined with loss, inviting readers to turn left into the sounds, phrases, and principles of anticolonial ways of reading, writing, citing, and listening.
This conceptual, poetic, and unconventional book engages with a range of hauntings, ghosts, and spectral presences, including those who have been victims of institutional and colonial violence. It is an important work for those interested in minoritarian literary aesthetics and utopian possibility.
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