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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\, şÚÁϲ»´ňěČ 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'
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