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Kevin Adonis Browne

@drbrowne.bsky.social

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Doer of things. Caribbean American Artist and Associate Professor of Rhetoric & Composition at Syracuse University. Author of A Sense of Arrival (Duke '24), The No Words Project ('21), High Mas (Miss '18), Tropic Tendencies (Pitt, '13), etc.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

So happy to announce the launch of my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL (Duke, 2025)! The launch will take place at Medulla Art Gallery on Apr 16 and will feature guest readings by Wendell Manwarren, Shivanee N. Ramlochan, and others. An exhibition of works featured in the book will run until April 23.

Informational flyer for the launch of A Sense of Arrival by Kevin Adonis Browne.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Me. Jouvay.

A photograph of author and artist Kevin Adonis Browne as a Blue Devil, covered in blue paint with horns during the annual Jouvay ritual in Port of Spain, Trinidad.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

My moon tonight...

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Today is the official pub date for "A Sense of Arrival"!!! I've sat with my own copy these past few days, and it's so beautiful. I'm so pleased with it. Check it out. Visit the @dukepress.bsky.social bookstore www.dukeupress.edu/a-sense-of-a... and save 30% when you use discount code E24BRWNE.

Hand holding a book entitled "A Sense of Arrival" by Kevin Adonis Browne published by Duke University Press

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

To commemorate the release of A Sense of Arrival, I crafted a black gin. Then, in the spirit of the season, I made some Ponche de Creme—three flavors. They're all really good. — Visit @dukepress.bsky.social to purchase your copy. Use code E24BRWNE to save 30% www.dukeupress.edu/a-sense-of-a...

A book entitled A Sense of Arrival sits on a wooden table with four small bottles next to it.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

This is my mother's hand as she regards a portrait of herself, which appears in A Sense of Arrival from @dukepress.bsky.social. In parts, I rely solely on her words—words of iron—as they helped shape my earliest understandings of arrival. I am so very grateful to share this moment with her.

A black and white portrait of a black woman looking off to her left. Three fingers, belonging to the woman in the portrait, rest near the bottom of it.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

Allyuh, mih book in de world, and it beautiful! In timing that couldn't be more perfect, my copies have just arrived! It is a stunningly beautiful book, more so in my hands. Thanks to @dukepress.bsky.social for this gift, for helping me bring into the world what I have dared to imagine.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

I'm very pleased to announce that my new book, A SENSE OF ARRIVAL, is now available!!! Preorders are already on their way! To purchase, visit the @dukepress.bsky.social bookstore (www.dukeupress.edu/a-sense-of-a...) & save 30% when you use discount code E24BRWNE #Caribbean #Rhetoric #Nonfiction #Art

Book Cover of A Sense of Arrival by Kevin Adonis Browne (Duke University Press, 2024), which features a self portrait of the author with book title and author name overlaid.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Today, my students brought me a fruit tart, a slice of chocolate cake, and flowers to cheer me up. I ate the tart while they were working on peer reviews for their final projects. I'll have the cake later. The flowers are going in some water.

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Kevin Adonis Browne @drbrowne.bsky.social · 11/11/2024

I'm so honored to be included on this list and looking forward to connecting! My book, A Sense of Arrival, is coming soon. Read the Introduction and save 30% when you pre-order using the E24BRWNE: www.dukeupress.edu/a-sense-of-a... Thanks, Ken!

A Sense of Arrival (Duke, 2024)
by Kevin Adonis Browne

Synopsis
In A Sense of Arrival, 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 arrival as 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, A Sense of Arrival is a statement on how the Black Caribbean self comes to be.

Praise
“Structured by a series of arrivals and becomings, A Sense of Arrival is formally challenging and inventive—a beautiful and welcome invitation to think what work nonfiction might do toward freedom and what it might be and require to work toward freedom. This book has much to offer; there is so much brilliance here. It will be an important addition to Caribbean thought and rhetoric, Caribbean studies, Black studies, cultural studies, photography, and visual culture.” — Christina Sharpe, author of Ordinary Notes

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