Kimberly Juanita Brown
Black Elegies
“An exquisite study of how black elegies are staged and rendered across the arts.”
—Michael Boyce Gillespie
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On Seeing
In Black Elegies, Kimberly Juanita Brown examines the form of the elegy and its unique capacity to convey the elongated grief of sustained racial violence. Structured around the sensorial, the book moves through sight, sound, and touch, offering a framework of mourning while black, within the parameters of contemporary artistic production.
Black Elegies is the second volume in the On Seeing series, following Kimberly Juanita Brown’s Mortevivum: Photography and the Politics of the Visual.