Maroon Choreography
Maroon Choreography by fahima ife, published by Duke University Press on August 27, 2021, is a thought-provoking exploration of black fugitivity through the lens of poetry and scholarship. This edition comprises 139 pages and is presented in English. The work features three long-form poems and a lyrical essay that delve into the complex afterlives of black fugitivity, challenging conventional historical narratives and examining the ongoing implications of those who sought refuge beyond the confines of slavery.
Readers will find that ife’s writing interrogates the nature of black fugitivity as both a historical and contemporary phenomenon, while also reflecting on the act of writing as a form of escape from societal constraints. The text engages with themes relevant to American poetry, African American and Black studies, and social science, prompting a deeper consideration of how individuals navigate their identities and histories. Through this philosophical performance, ife invites contemplation on the intersections of history, ecology, and the act of creation itself.
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In Maroon Choreography fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material, ecological, and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay, they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about beyond what history tells us. As both poet and scholar, ife unsettles the history and idea of black fugitivity, troubling senses of historic knowing while moving inside the continuing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery. At the same time, they interrogate how writing itself can be a fugitive practice and a means to find a way out of ongoing containment, indebtedness, surveillance, and ecological ruin. Offering a philosophical performance in black study, ife prompts us to consider how we—in our study, in our mutual refusal, in our belatedness, in our habitual assemblage—linger beside the unknown.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award recipient
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