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And where do people find lasting support

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Augustus Durham: Stay Black and Die semiotexte in typical garish colourDuke University Press Books, 2023, softcover, 344 pages, 15. 9 x 22. 9 cm In Stay Black and Die, I. Augustus Durham examines melancholy and genius in black culture, letters, and media from the nineteenth century to the contemporary moment. Drawing on psychoanalysis, affect theory, and black studies, Durham explores the black mother as both a lost object and a found subject often obscured when constituting a cultural legacy of genius across history. He