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SUMMARY:EACW research seminar: Dr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester)\, 'Moten’s
  Fugitive Style: Literary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal'
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DESCRIPTION:English\, American Studies and Creative Writing Research Semi
 nar:\n\nDr. Kelechi Anucha (Manchester)\, 'Moten’s Fugitive Style: Liter
 ary Form and the (Necro)politics of Refusal'\n\n12.30pm: light lunch in 
 the Grad School atrium\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\n1.00pm: talk in C1.18
 \, Ellen Wilkinson Building \n\nAll welcome! \n\n---\n\nNotions of fugit
 ivity emerging from a Black studies framework continue to enjoy sustaine
 d critical attention. Fugitivity is a particularly resonant critical par
 adigm to engage with representations of Black life\, death and survival 
 which resist the conventions of dominant narratives. Tracking the shifti
 ng articulations of the concept in Fred Moten’s work\, this paper argues
  that it is as a stylist that Moten makes his most definitive statements
  about the nature of fugitivity. Idiosyncrastic and rhetorically dextero
 us\, Moten’s prose draws on a poetic sensibility that illustrates the ma
 ny paradoxes of fugitivity\, moving the concept elusively ‘in an out of 
 measure’\, ‘in and out of the frame’ of the reader’s comprehension. His 
 criticality – variously sly\, joyful\, gnomic and mournful – vivifies th
 e stakes of avoiding capture not only in a literal or political sense\, 
 but also in a sense that anticipates the traps that accompany thinking a
 nd writing within the framework of academia. Identifying how Moten’s fug
 itive style interpolates a particular kind of reader and produces a char
 acteristic process of reading\, this paper concludes by reading Moten al
 ongside examples of contemporary Black diasporic literature that engage 
 with illness\, death and disaster.
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LOCATION:C1.18 Ellen Wilkinson\, Ellen Wilkinson Building\, Manchester
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