{"product_id":"on-cuddling-9780745346113","title":"On Cuddling","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can a cuddle tell us about intimacy, violence and racism?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'A necessary book about holding, being held and the hold(s) of the past. Playful, vulnerable, ever acute - Antwi gets down with the funk of language, history, and bodies to make fugitive sense of modernity as anti-Black grammar and embrace.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Nadine Attewell, scholar of intimacy, empire, and diasporic life\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Antwi invites us to look more closely at the associations between the cuddle, the choke, the hold and the coffle for Black people. But, beyond the violence of the racial embrace, he also finds a place for fugitive cuddling, the comfort that arcs back and forth between those who flee, those who escape and even those who remain held back. This book will take its place among others by Christina Sharpe, Saidiya Hartman and Hazel Carby that have investigated the violence of intimacy and the intimacy of violence.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Jack Halberstam, author of 'Wild Things: The Disorder of Desire'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e'An urgent and elegant text ... excavating the many meanings of cuddling under racial capitalism. Antwi's writing is lyrical and powerful; the way he harnesses epistemology and polysemy to build both dancing prose and crucial political analysis, is revelatory.'\u003c\/p\u003e -- Sophie K Rosa, author of 'Radical Intimacy'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBe Held\u003cbr\u003e A Scroll \u003cbr\u003e Scene of Subjection, Choreography of Care \u003cbr\u003e Racial Embrace\u003cbr\u003e Hold. Womb. Tomb. Spoon.\u003cbr\u003e The Dead Can Love Us Too\u003cbr\u003e Grammars of the Black Atlantic\u003cbr\u003e Bearing\u003cbr\u003e Attraction and Abjection\u003cbr\u003e Continuous Present \u003cbr\u003e State Cuddling \u003cbr\u003e Loved to Death \u003cbr\u003e Theater, Hustling, Embrace \u003cbr\u003e It’s Almost Time \u003cbr\u003e Fugitive (Solidarity (Betrayals)) \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eAcknowledgments \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eNotes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48865701364055,"sku":"9780745346113","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780745346113.jpg?v=1722275173","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/on-cuddling-9780745346113","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}