{"product_id":"breath-voice-fire-hardcover","title":"Breath, Voice, Fire - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSharon Kimberly Williams\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBreath Voice Fire is a compilation of three creative nonfiction essays written in response to the rise of anti-black violence and the existential crisis of blackness currently at the forefront of social unrest in America. The concept is based on a creative writing trope (breath, voice, fire) that connects the violence that continues to occur as a result of anti-black racism to the notion of systemic racism in America. This work contrasts literature from the Civil Rights Movement, the Black Lives Matter movement, Russian literature, biblical narrative, and postmodern existentialist philosophy to construct an understanding of the zeitgeist or the \"Spirit of the times.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eSharon Kimberly Williams is Director of Peace and Justice Studies and Clinical Lecturer in Religion and Cultures and Black Studies at Iona University. Through a National Endowment for the Humanities grant, she is Co-Project Director of the Iona Black Humanities Initiative. Dr. Williams recently published \"A Theopoetics of Exodus and the Africana Spirit in Music,\" in the Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia Series, \u003ci\u003eLife Under the Baobab Tree: Africana Studies and Religion in a Transitional Age\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 156\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 13, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45431990124646,"sku":"9798385209255","price":48.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/GygSFbcf_R9798385209255.webp?v=1775821820","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/breath-voice-fire-hardcover","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}