Augustus Durham: Stay Black and Die semiotexte motion and tone― into text

motion and tone― into text

to the Jamaican music of his youth—that look over him with an angel’s aura

And where do people find lasting support

In such a world it would be like living in a vacuum

in typical garish colour

Augustus Durham: Stay Black and Die semiotexte motion and tone― into textDuke University Press Books, 2023, softcover, 344 pages, 15. 9 x 22. 9 cm In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He