A Sense of Arrival

Kevin Adonis Browne is Associate Professor of Rhetoric at Syracuse University and author of Tropic Tendencies: Rhetoric, Popular Culture, and the Anglophone Caribbean and High Mas: Carnival and the Poetics of Caribbean Culture.

"Structured by a series of arrivals and becomings, A Sense of Arrival is formally challenging and inventive-a beautiful and welcome invitation to think what work nonfiction might do toward freedom and what it might be and require to work toward freedom. This book has much to offer; there is so much brilliance here. It will be an important addition to Caribbean thought and rhetoric, Caribbean studies, Black studies, cultural studies, photography and visual culture." - Christina Sharpe, author of (Ordinary Notes) "A Sense of Arrival is a brilliant, beautiful, and unorthodox contribution to Black studies debates and to the reconceptualization of Black Being more broadly. In contrast to current trends, Kevin Adonis Browne is radically optimistic in the face of Black death and nonbeing and works to convince the reader that there is Black thought before, during, and after Black nonbeing. Having asked the question of Blackness and Black subjectivity, Browne's highly original and philosophical notion of arrival becomes the answer, moving the reader from mere identity or even subjectivity to the ontological question of the nature of being itself." - Michelle Ann Stephens, author of (Skin Acts: Race, Psychoanalysis, and the Black Male Performer)