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DESCRIPTION:The Department of English invites graduate students and faculty
  to a reading group on Christina Sharpe's Ordinary Notes\, finalist for th
 e National Book Award and shortlisted for the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust
  Prize for Nonfiction. Discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Amber Rose Jo
 hnson\, McGill Third Century Postdoctoral Research Fellow.\n\nThe group wi
 ll meet three times leading up to Prof. Sharpe's Spector Lecture in March 
 2024. Please forward any questions to Professor Ara Osterweil [ara.osterwe
 il [at] mcgill.ca].\n\nMeeting Dates: \n\n(1) November 16\, 2023\, 4-6 PM\
 , Leacock 738\n\n(2) January 17\, 2024\, 3-5 PM\, Graduate Studnet Lounge 
 (Arts B-22)\n\n(3) February 26\, 2024\, 3-5 PM\, Graduate Studnet Lounge (
 Arts B-22)\n\n\nThe critically acclaimed author of In the Wake\, 'Christin
 a Sharpe is a brilliant thinker who attends unflinchingly to the brutality
  of our current arrangements . . . and yet always finds a way to beauty an
 d possibility' (Saidiya Hartman).\n	\n	A singular achievement\, Ordinary Not
 es explores profound questions about loss and the shapes of Black life tha
 t emerge in the wake. In a series of 248 notes that gather meaning as we r
 ead them\, Christina Sharpe skillfully weaves artifacts from the past—publ
 ic ones alongside others that are poignantly personal—with present realiti
 es and possible futures\, intricately constructing an immersive portrait o
 f everyday Black existence. The themes and tones that echo through these p
 ages—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.\n	\n	At the heart o
 f Ordinary Notes is the indelible presence of the author’s mother\, Ida Wr
 ight Sharpe. “I learned to see in my mother’s house\,” writes Sharpe. “I l
 earned how not to see in my mother’s house . . . My mother gifted me a lov
 e 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 fro
 m a community of thinkers toward a “Dictionary of Untranslatable Blackness
 \,” and rigorously examines sites of memory and memorial. And in the proce
 ss\, she forges a brilliant new literary form\, as multivalent as the ways
  of Black being it traces.\n
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SUMMARY:Reading Group: Christina Sharpe's 'Ordinary Notes'
URL:https://www.mcgill.ca/english/channels/event/reading-group-christina-sh
 arpes-ordinary-notes
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