Research Catalog

Title

Blank : essays & interviews / M. NourbeSe Philip.

Author

Philip, Marlene Nourbese, 1947-

Publication

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

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Holdings

Details

Description

345 pages; 21 cm

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

Series Statement

Essais ; no. 3

Uniform Title

• Essays. Selections
• Essais (Toronto, Ont.) no. 3.

Alternative Title

• Essays.
• Bla_k

Subject

• Black people > Canada > Social conditions
• African Americans > Social conditions
• Race
• Racism
• Race relations
• Racial Groups
• Canadian essays (English) > 21st century
• Noirs américains > Conditions sociales
• Race
• Racisme
• Relations raciales
• Personnes noires > Canada > Conditions sociales
• race (group of people)
• Black people > Social conditions
• Canada > Race relations
• Canada

Genre/Form

• Canadian essays
• Essay
• essays.
• Essays
• Essais.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: Shout Outs and Thank Yous -- Jammin' Still -- Echoes in a Stranger Land -- Interview with an Empire -- A Long-Memoried Woman -- Who's Listening? Artists, Audiences & Language -- The Disappearing Debate: Or, How the Discussion of Racism has been Taken Over by the Censorship Issue -- Race-Baiting and the Writers' Union of Canada -- Social Barbarism and the Spoils of Modernism -- Museum Could Have Avoided Culture Clash -- Six Million Dollars and Still Counting -- Disturbing the Peace -- Letter, September 1990: Am I a Nigger? Incident at Congress -- Letter, January 1989: How Do You Explain? -- Letter, July 1990: Conversations Across Borders -- Letter, June 1991: James Baldwin -- The Warm-and-Fuzzies: Or, How to Go to the Opera and Not Feel Guilty -- Peaceful Violence -- Caribana: African Roots and Continuities -- On Michael Coren: Amnesia and the Everyday Embrace of Racism and Sexism -- Dis Place -- The Space Between -- Riding the Bus with Rosa in Morocco -- Ruminations Letter to Haiti -- Letter to a Young Activist -- Banana Republics of Poetry -- Dream Analysis -- The Morning After -- The Aftermath.

ISBN

• 9781771663069
• 1771663065
• 9781771663083
• 1771663081
• 9781771663076 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781771663090 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2017479607

OCLC

• 961934223
• SCSB-12064379

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library