Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Body in the World -- Chapter One. Stromae's Relational Aesthetic -- Chapter Two. In Search of Presence: A Digressive Reading of Ordinary Light -- Chapter Three. The Freedom in Black Aesthetic Optimism -- Chapter Four. Black Time Matters -- Chapter Five. To Wander Determined: A Portal to Blackness and Being -- Chapter Six. Migration/Stasis/Stillness: Paule Marshall's Poetics of Change -- Chapter Seven. Black Presence in the Twilight Hour: Dionne Brand's thirsty
Chapter Eight. Swing Time: Politically Minded with an Individual Soul -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W