Maroon Choreography

<p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In </span><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Maroon Choreography</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> fahima ife speculates on the long (im)material ecological and aesthetic afterlives of black fugitivity. In three long-form poems and a lyrical essay they examine black fugitivity as an ongoing phenomenon we know little about beyond what history tells us. As both poet and scholar ife unsettles the history and idea of black fugitivity troubling senses of historic knowing while moving inside the continuing afterlives of those people who disappeared themselves into rural spaces beyond the reach of slavery. At the same time they interrogate how writing itself can be a fugitive practice and a means to find a way out of ongoing containment indebtedness surveillance and ecological ruin. Offering a philosophical performance in black study ife prompts us to consider how we-in our study in our mutual refusal in our belatedness in our habitual assemblage-linger beside the unknown.</span></p><p><br></p>