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Beauty is not a luxury, rather it is a way of creating possibility in the space of enclosure, a radical act of subsistence, an embrace of our terribleness, a transfiguration of the given. It is a will to adorn, a proclivity for the baroque, and the love of too much.
—Saidiya Hartman, Wayward Lives, Beautiful Experiments (excerpt in New Yorker)

escrevivência concept by Conceição Evaristo–It is a combination of “writing”, “living” and “seeing”, which, in addition to the word game, represents a conception derived from a black epistemology (ancestralidades)

Sounds similar to Landó by Victoria Santa Cruz–During the Afro-Peruvian revival, she re-created one of the most important dances that has lived on as a standard in terms of the genres that have come to embody and represent Peru’s African heritage, the landó. Victoria, according to what she told me, re-created the landó by remembering it with her body. Ancestral memory. (afropop)

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L’imaginaire de mon lieu … [naturally] dans le grand camouflage.

[Suzanne] Césaire in “Le grand camouflage” reads the Caribbean as interconnected space rather than as a series of discrete islands. Blurring both spatial and temporal boundaries, her authorial voice situates itself simultaneously in Haiti, Martinique, and Puerto Rico. “Le grand camouflage” is best characterized in Césaire’s own words as “le grand jeu de cache-cache,” a text that almost playfully weaves between veiling and revealing the geography, history, and social reality of race relations in the Antilles. Césaire deftly juggles the images of lucidity and what Keith Walker, in his introduction to the English translation of her collected works, describes as “the wilful blindness . . . the work it takes not to see.” It is in “Le grand camouflage” that Césaire finally fully takes on the role of the seer, that quality of the poet as voyant that she had until now only admired in others.

Beyond the Great Camouflage: Haiti in Suzanne Césaire’s Politics and Poetics of Liberation
Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Small Axe July 2016.

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Hot Chip – Look At Where We Are (Major Lazer Extended Remix)

I am aiming at what Henry James called “perception at the pitch of passion.

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Colm Tóibín’s The Pitch of Passion, adapted from On James Baldwin.

In essays and interviews Baldwin needed to unloose himself from easy categories, but it was also central to his procedures as an artist to share James’s interest in consciousness as shifting and unconfined but also hidden and secretive, and his concern with language as both pure revelation and mask. Baldwin was fascinated with eloquence itself, the soaring phrase, the rhythm pushed hard, the sharp and glorious ring of a sentence, as much as with the plain, declarative line.

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For Baldwin, the past was bound up with place, and since his sense of place was bound up with displacement, the past did not come simply. What is strange is how stories from the past represent the very center of Go Tell It on the Mountain, enough to make it a novel about how the displacement caused by the Great Migration entered into the spirit of these characters and their relationships. The novel has a shadow world where the past happened, where the earlier generation came from, and where much that was unresolved had been left behind.

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