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She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

By: M. NourbeSe Philip

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She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks

By: M. NourbeSe Philip

Brilliant, lyrical, and passionate, this collection from the acclaimed poet M. NourbeSe Philip is an extended jazz riff running along the themes of language, racism, colonialism, and exile. In this groundbreaking collection, Philip defiantly challenges and resoundingly overthrows the silencing of black women through appropriation of language, offering no less than superb poetry resonant with beauty and strength. She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks was originally published in 1989 and won the Casa de Las Americas Prize. This new Wesleyan edition includes a foreword by Evie Shockley. An online reader's companion will be available at http://nourbesephilip.site.wesleyan.edu.

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0819575682

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9780819575685

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As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng

By: M. NourbeSe Philip

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As Told to the Author by Setaey Adamu Boateng

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A haunting lifeline between archive and memory, law and poetry

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0819568767

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9780819568762

Blank

Interviews and Essays

By: Marlene Nourbese Philip

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Interviews and Essays

By: Marlene Nourbese Philip

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."--

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1771663073

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9781771663076

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