Blank : essays & interviews / M. NourbeSe Philip.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Philip, Marlene Nourbese, 1947- author.

Contributor:

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 3.

Essais ; no. 3

Standardized Title:

Essays. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race.

Racism.

Canadian essays--20th century.

Canadian essays.

Canadian essays--21st century.

Genre:

Essays.

Physical Description:

345 pages ; 21 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Bla_k

Place of Publication:

[Toronto, Ontario, Canada] : BookThug, 2017.

Summary:

"Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important contemporary writers and thinkers. Through an engagement with her earlier work, M. NourbeSe Philip comes to realize the existence of a repetition in the world: the return of something that, while still present, has become unembedded from the world, disappeared. Her imperative becomes to make us see what has gone unseen, by writing memory upon the margin of history, in the shadow of empire and at the frontier of silence. In heretical writings that work to make the disappeared perceptible, Blank explores questions of race, the body politic,timeliness, recurrence, ongoingness, art, and the so-called multicultural nation. Through these considerations, Philip creates a linguistic form that registers the presence of what has seemingly dissolved, a form that also imprints the loss and the silence surrounding those disappearances in its very presence."-- Provided by publisher.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Nourbese Philip, Marlene, author. Blank.

ISBN:

1771663065

9781771663069

9781771663083

1771663081

OCLC:

961934223

Publisher Number:

99974352465