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.--$cProvided by publisher.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2017.
- Description conventions
- rda
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C814/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 9781771663083 9781771663069
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.P456
- LCCN Item number
- A6 2017eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (345 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00238221 (OCoLC)985966272 (CaOOCEL)454203
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Bla_k
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- contents 8
- acknowledgments 10
- shout-outs and thank-yous 12
- jammin’ still 14
- echoes in a stranger land 40
- interview with an empire 54
- a long-memoried woman 70
- who’s listening? artists, audiences & language 74
- the disappearing debate: or, how the discussion of racism has been taken over by the censorship issu 92
- race-baiting and the writers’ union of canada 112
- social barbarism and the spoils of modernism 120
- museum could have avoided culture clash 128
- six million dollars and still counting 136
- disturbing the peace 160
- letter, september 1990 am i a nigger? incident at congress 176
- letter, january 1989: how do you explain? 178
- letter, july 1990: conversations across borders 182
- letter, june 1991: james baldwin 192
- the warm-and-fuzzies, or, how to go to the opera and not feel guilty 196
- peaceful violence 204
- caribana: african roots and continuities 216
- on michael coren: amnesia and the everyday embrace of racism and sexism 248
- dis place-the space between 252
- riding the bus with rosa in morocco 290
- ruminations 306
- nasrin and nourbeSe 334
- about the author 346
- colophon 348
