{"product_id":"a-sense-of-arrival-kevin-adonis-browne-9781478026709","title":"A Sense of Arrival","description":"In \u003ci\u003eA Sense of Arrival\u003c\/i\u003e, Kevin Adonis Browne blends literary, visual, and material forms to present a narrative of Caribbean blackness. Arguing that the story of Caribbeanness cannot be told through words alone, Browne interweaves essays, memoir, autotheory, and narrative verse with documentary photography, portraiture, Rorschach blots, and images of his own sculptures and art installations. Browne labels this multimodal approach and rhetorical form \"Caribbean nonfiction,\" and he uses it to conceptualize \u003ci\u003earrival \u003c\/i\u003eas a theory of being. Arrival is practiced through forms of status, return, belonging, nomadism, self-exile, love, loss, presence, and haunting, each of which expresses the vast complexity and urgency of Caribbeanness. At the same time, arrival emphasizes and extends Caribbean ways of being, knowing, and doing. Throughout, Browne challenges readers to follow the archipelagic sensibilities of the Caribbean to look beyond black death and apprehend the inherent optimism and beauty of arrival. A singular meditation on the art and process of Caribbeanness, \u003ci\u003eA Sense of Arrival\u003c\/i\u003e is a statement on how the black Caribbean self comes to be.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Adonis Browne\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1478026707\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781478026709\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/07\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 424\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.26lbs","brand":"Kevin Adonis Browne","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46465856438527,"sku":"9781478026709","price":119.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4e77e3c3-bd41-40f4-8401-063e9602e4c1.jpg?v=1736347483","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-sense-of-arrival-kevin-adonis-browne-9781478026709","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}