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1 online resource (345 pages) |
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Essais ; no. 3 |
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Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 3.
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| Contents |
Contents -- acknowledgments -- shout-outs and thank-yous -- jamminâ#x80;#x99; still -- echoes in a stranger land -- interview with an empire -- a long-memoried woman -- whoâ#x80;#x99;s listening? artists, audiences & language -- the disappearing debate: or, how the discussion of racism has been taken over by the censorship issu -- race-baiting and the writersâ#x80;#x99; 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 |
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Letter, september 1990 am i a nigger? incident at congressletter, 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 -- nasrin and nourbeSe -- about the author |
| 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 |
| Notes |
Place of publication from publisher's website |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 11, 2023) |
| Subject |
Race.
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Racism.
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Canadian essays -- 20th century
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Canadian essays -- 21st century
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Racial Groups
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race (group of people)
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Canadian essays
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Race
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Racism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781771663076 |
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1771663073 |
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9781771663083 |
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1771663081 |
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9781771663090 |
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177166309X |
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