Christina Sharpe Ordinary Notes-普通笔记

本书是美国国家图书奖提名作家克里斯蒂娜·夏普的248篇笔记，这些以回忆录、批评、盘点和学术分层的笔记，在白人至上的暴力中描绘了黑人生活的鲜明界限。她提醒我们，“笔记既是一个名词（观察、记忆、语气），又是一个动词（参与、标记、记忆）”。

她精确地勾勒出母亲双手的优雅，托妮·莫里森的《宠儿》的敏锐视野，阿米里·巴拉卡葬礼上萨维恩·格洛弗踢踏舞的超越。夏普以原始和严谨的方式不断打击艺术、文学甚至历史中所假定的白人中立性。悲伤和胜利贯穿始终。“这是一封写给我母亲的情书，”她在《第248篇笔记》中写道。她深刻的作品是对黑人的爱、关怀和温柔遗产的赞歌。

书名：Ordinary Notes《普通笔记》

作者：Christina Sharpe

简介；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.