Description: Left Turns in Brown Study, Paperback by Ruiz, Sandra, ISBN 1478030127, ISBN-13 9781478030126, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "Left Turns in Brown Study is a poetic-theoretical inquiry into the entwinement of study and mourning. Sandra Ruiz writes for and with a chorus of departed voices, from deceased teachers to illiterate ancestors to victims of colonial violence, in order to grapple with grief and the way it is carried by minoritarian subjects. Ruiz proposes "brown study," a term first used in the sixteenth century to denote the act of depressive study, as key for understanding the ways that Brownness is perpetually constructed through the grievance of colonial encroachment and citational practice. Working from an archive of Black and Brown activism and theory, Ruiz creates a polyphonic and typographically experimental text that explores study as an emancipatory practice. Ruiz builds a minoritarian citational ethics of Black and Brown theory that will be crucial to those theorizing Latinx and minoritarian aesthetics"--
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Book Title: Left Turns in Brown Study
Number of Pages: 152 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication Year: 2024
Item Height: 0.4 in
Topic: Lgbt Studies / General, Poetry, American / Hispanic American
Genre: Literary Criticism, Poetry, Social Science
Item Weight: 8 Oz
Author: Sandra Ruiz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 5.9 in
Book Series: Writing Matters! Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
