"I Got the Cell Count Blues:" Danez Smith, HIV, and the Legacy of the Black Arts Movement

This paper connects Danez Smith’s collection of poems Don’t Call Us Dead (2017) to writing by the poet’s predecessors in the Black Arts Movement. I argue that Smith’s expression of HIV in their poetry continues and updates the denunciation of mass incarceration of, as well as structural violence ag...

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Autor principal:	Toni R. Juncosa
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Publicado:	Università degli Studi di Torino 2019
Materias:	Danez Smith Black Arts Movement HIV/AIDS imprisonment indefinite detention America E11-143 American literature PS1-3576
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:5258dd727f0a46cfb42518cfe85bc65e2021-11-23T14:21:10Z"I Got the Cell Count Blues:" Danez Smith, HIV, and the Legacy of the Black Arts Movement10.13135/2612-5641/32002612-5641https://doaj.org/article/5258dd727f0a46cfb42518cfe85bc65e2019-12-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.ojs.unito.it/index.php/jamit/article/view/3200https://doaj.org/toc/2612-5641 This paper connects Danez Smith’s collection of poems Don’t Call Us Dead (2017) to writing by the poet’s predecessors in the Black Arts Movement. I argue that Smith’s expression of HIV in their poetry continues and updates the denunciation of mass incarceration of, as well as structural violence against, non-white US citizens. My goal is to analyze intertextuality and the main topoi in Smith’s poetry as elements contributing to the extension of the BAM’s attempt to raise awareness and create Black self-determination and nationhood (Neal 1969). To do so, I read Smith’s work in light of contemporary thought, focusing on Judith Butler’s (2004) ideas of grievability, indefinite detention, and the hierarchies of death. Toni R. JuncosaUniversità degli Studi di TorinoarticleDanez SmithBlack Arts MovementHIV/AIDSimprisonmentindefinite detentionAmericaE11-143American literaturePS1-3576ENITJAm It!, Vol 1, Iss 2 (2019)
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description	This paper connects Danez Smith’s collection of poems Don’t Call Us Dead (2017) to writing by the poet’s predecessors in the Black Arts Movement. I argue that Smith’s expression of HIV in their poetry continues and updates the denunciation of mass incarceration of, as well as structural violence against, non-white US citizens. My goal is to analyze intertextuality and the main topoi in Smith’s poetry as elements contributing to the extension of the BAM’s attempt to raise awareness and create Black self-determination and nationhood (Neal 1969). To do so, I read Smith’s work in light of contemporary thought, focusing on Judith Butler’s (2004) ideas of grievability, indefinite detention, and the hierarchies of death.
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"I Got the Cell Count Blues:" Danez Smith, HIV, and the Legacy of the Black Arts Movement

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