4 Ergebnisse.

In Impossible Stories, John Murillo offers bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works within an Afro-pessimistic framework to excavate how time, space, and blackness intersect-or, rather, crash. Building on Michelle Wright's ideas about dislocation from time and space as constitutive to being Black in America, as well as on W. E. B. DuBois's theories of temporalization, he reconsiders the connections between physical phenom...

In Impossible Stories, John Murillo offers bold new readings of recent and canonical Black creative works within an Afro-pessimistic framework to excavate how time, space, and blackness intersect-or, rather, crash. Building on Michelle Wright's ideas about dislocation from time and space as constitutive to being Black in America, as well as on W. E. B. DuBois's theories of temporalization, he reconsiders the connections between physical phenom...

A writer traces his history-brushes with violence, responses to threat, poetic and political solidarity-in poems of lyric and narrative urgency. John Murillo's second book is a reflective look at the legacy of institutional, accepted violence against African Americans and the personal and societal wreckage wrought by long histories of subjugation. A sparrow trapped in a car window evokes a mother battered by a father's fists, a workout at an i...

The feel of now lives in John Murillo's Up Jump the Boogie, but it's tempered by bows to the tradition of soulful music and oral poetry. The lived dimensions embodied in this collection say that here's an earned street knowledge and a measured intellectual inquiry that dare to live side by side, in one unique voice. The pages of Up Jump the Boogie breathe and sing, the tributes and cultural nods are heartfelt, and in these honest poems no one ...