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OverviewIn this profoundly innovative book, Ashon T. Crawley engages a wide range of critical paradigms from black studies, queer theory, and sound studies to theology, continental philosophy, and performance studies to theorize the ways in which alternative or ""otherwise"" modes of existence can serve as disruptions against the marginalization of and violence against minoritarian lifeworlds and possibilities for flourishing. Examining the whooping, shouting, noise-making, and speaking in tongues of Black Pentecostalism-a multi-racial, multi-class, multi-national Christian sect with one strand of its modern genesis in 1906 Los Angeles-Blackpentecostal Breath reveals how these aesthetic practices allow for the emergence of alternative modes of social organization. As Crawley deftly reveals, these choreographic, sonic, and visual practices and the sensual experiences they create are not only important for imagining what Crawley identifies as ""otherwise worlds of possibility,"" they also yield a general hermeneutics, a methodology for reading culture in an era when such expressions are increasingly under siege. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Ashon T. CrawleyPublisher: Fordham University Press Imprint: Fordham University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.431kg ISBN: 9780823274550ISBN 10: 0823274551 Pages: 320 Publication Date: 03 October 2016 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsBlackpentecostal Breath is a work of utter originality anchored by daring synthesis, acrobatic leaps of imagination, and laced throughout with passages of jolting beauty. --Ann Pellegrini, coauthor of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance A one-of-a-kind intervention into performance, religious, black and cultural studies. --Roderick A. Ferguson, Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique A one-of-a-kind intervention into performance, religious, black and cultural studies. -- -Roderick A. Ferguson * Aberrations in Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique * Crawley's prose is attentive, loving. It's round and sweet. It's generous in associations. Anecdotes and personal emails populate the book...In Blackpentecostal Breath, tales and anecdotes equip us with tools to decode the book;s argument while also allowing us to pause and breathe...Blackpentecostal Breath is a book of its time, but it's decidedly future-oriented. Breathing, after all, is sequential: each breath, however strained, carries the hope of another one, and another one. -- Jean-Thomas Tremblay * -Los Angeles Review of Books * Blackpentecostal Breath is a work of utter originality anchored by daring synthesis, acrobatic leaps of imagination, and laced throughout with passages of jolting beauty. -- -Ann Pellegrini * coauthor of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance * Blackpentecostal Breath is a work of utter originality anchored by daring synthesis, acrobatic leaps of imagination, and laced throughout with passages of jolting beauty. --Ann Pellegrini, coauthor of Love the Sin: Sexual Regulation and the Limits of Religious Tolerance Author InformationAshon T. Crawley is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of California, Riverside. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |