Black Elegies: Meditations on the Art of Mourning

By: Brown, Kimberly Juanita

A poignant, unflinching study of black grief as a form of elegy found in visual art, music, literature--everywhere, if you know how to see it.

In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the elongated grief borne of sustained racial violence. Structured around the sensorial, the book moves through sight, sound, and touch to reveal what Okwui Enwezor calls the "national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262551721
• ISBN13: 9780262551724
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 168 Pages