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"A singular achievement, Ordinary Notes explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life that emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we read them, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past--public ones alongside others that are poignantly personal--with present realities and possible futures, intricately constructing an immersive portrait of everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these pages--sometimes about language, beauty, memory; sometimes about history, art, photography, and literature--always attend, with exquisite care, to the ordinary-extraordinary dimensions of Black life. At the heart of Ordinary Notes is the indelible presence of the author's mother, Ida Wright Sharpe. "I learned to see in my mother's house," writes Sharpe. "I learned how not to see in my mother's house . . . My mother gifted me a love of beauty, a love of words." Using these gifts and other ways of seeing, Sharpe steadily summons a chorus of voices and experiences to the page. She practices an aesthetic of "beauty as a method," collects entries from a community of thinkers toward a "Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness," and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the process, she forges a brilliant new literary form, as multivalent as the ways of Black being it traces." -- Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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After visiting the Legacy Museum and the National Memorial for Peace Sharpe writes,
We understood, once again, the many ways that we are forced to encounter anew both the violence and its refusal as violence.
Can you be Black and stand there?
Note 38
Sharpe talks about the documentation of lynchings, how it is 'hidden', hidden but known and kept safe in attics and homes and museums across the country. In Note 43 'We are called to do different things' She asks what would it be like if White people were asked to locate the white people and their families in these lynching photographs and create a Legacy of Lynching Participants database in the same way that the Legacies of British Slave Ownership project showed us who the slave-owners were, how they made their money and gained power.
What if they had to face themselves?
Might that not be a different endeavour? Might that not hit a different note?
Note 43
This note stopped me in my tracks. As she says in another note, 'Every memorial and museum to atrocity already contains its failure'. And there were others: the critique of Obama singing Amazing Grace at the funeral of Clementa Pinckney, her childhood experiences of racism and the definitions of words as seen through Black eyes. If I had been asked to define property, I think it highly unlikely I would have written about theft of indigenous lands, theft of African bodies and enslavement, insurance and banking.
Included in the book are works of art, photographs and at the very end in the section where 'note' means to 'observe with care', Sharpe writes that the book is a love letter to her mother with a series of photographs taken from a window with condensation on it looking out - blurry and wiped out. It looks cold. And then the images move to the sky, a trail in the sky, a picture of Beloved by Toni Morrison, and the moon. It is a fascinating way to end the book.
I can't think of another way that this book could have been written. Poetry is the nearest form I can think of that might work. The notes cover a vast range of topics, with these notes allowing the author to roam. Some stand alone in the text, others follow on but all lead to seeing the world through the Black gaze.
The notes are like stars in the sky. Some shine brightly, others less so, with each as an individual but together they make a constellation.
This book is on my list of the best books I have read in 2024. ( )