Fred Moten: 7 books

Book cover of B Jenkins
by Fred Moten, Charles McGovern, Josh Kun
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010

The fourth collection of poetry from the literary and cultural critic Fred Moten, B Jenkins is named after the poet’s mother, who passed away in 2000. It is both an elegy and an inquiry into many of the themes that Moten has explored throughout his career: language, music, performance, improvisation,...
Book cover of In The Break

In The Break

The Aesthetics Of The Black Radical Tradition

by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2003

In his controversial essay on white jazz musician Burton Greene, Amiri Baraka asserted that jazz was exclusively an African American art form and explicitly fused the idea of a black aesthetic with radical political traditions of the African diaspora. In the Break is an extended riff on “The Burton...
Book cover of Stolen Life
by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In...
Book cover of The Universal Machine
by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2018

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In...
Book cover of Black and Blur
by Fred Moten
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017

"Taken as a trilogy, consent not to be a single being is a monumental accomplishment: a brilliant theoretical intervention that might be best described as a powerful case for blackness as a category of analysis."—Brent Hayes Edwards, author of Epistrophies: Jazz and the Literary Imagination In...
Book cover of What I Say

What I Say

Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America

by Aldon Lynn Nielsen, Lauri Ramey, Willliam L. Alexander
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015

What I Say: Innovative Poetry by Black Writers in America is the second book in a landmark two-volume anthology that explodes narrow definitions of African American poetry by examining experimental poems often excluded from previous scholarship. The first volume, Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone, covers...
Book cover of Unwatchable
by Erika Balsom, Kenneth Berger, Susie Bright
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2019

We all have images that we find unwatchable, whether for ethical, political, or sensory and affective reasons. From news coverage of terror attacks to viral videos of police brutality, and from graphic horror films to transgressive artworks, many of the images in our media culture might strike us...
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