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The Essentialisn't
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| Expected release date is Oct 20th 2026 |
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Product Details
Author:
Eisa Davis
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
152
Publisher:
Theatre Communications Group (October 20, 2026)
Release Date:
October 20, 2026
Language:
English
Audience:
General/trade
ISBN-13:
9798989946112
Dimensions:
5" x 7"
File:
CONSORTIUM-Metadata_Only_Consortium_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260401130217-20260401.xml
Folder:
CONSORTIUM
List Price:
$16.00
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
35
Case Pack:
10
As low as:
$15.20
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
H
Imprint:
53rd State Press
Weight:
12oz
Overview
Can you be Black and not perform?
This is the question of The Essentialisn’t, a conceptual art installation with award-winning writer and performer Eisa Davis singing for her life in a tank of water, or at the piano in a pasture of hair. A transatlantic undrowning which moves from enslavement through the Harlem Renaissance into the diasporic present, the piece interrogates the racial imaginary with an embrace of interiority and innovation, making space for an uncommodified Black feminine practice of sovereignty and liberation.
