Who do you talk to, when a body's in trouble

M. Nourbese Philip's (un)silencing of black bodies in the diaspora

Bibliographic Data

ID3978142
AuthorsKatherine Mckittrick (York University, corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume1
Issue2
Pages223-236
Publication date2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14649360020010220
OpenAlexW2091262027
LanguageEN
Citations received25
References cited18

This paper examines Marlene Nourbese Philip's 'Dis Place—The Space Between' to argue that black women's bodies are troubled by Philip in order to reconceptualize and reinvent location, corporeality, subjectivities, and dominant historical narratives. In situating blackness and black femininity within a displaced, or 'anywhere' framework, Philip scrutinizes and redraws the places of black women's bodies in the New World so that we might reconsider the geographical and historical importance of blackness. This paper therefore analyses how Philip takes up the chaotic in between-ness of black womanhood in order to embrace discourses and spaces of 'elsewhere' and possibility, while also acknowledging sites of racism, sexism, memory and struggle

Aesthetics · Art · Black women · Diaspora · Femininity · Literature · Narrative · Order (exchange · Racism · Sociology · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · South African History and Culture · South Asian Studies and Diaspora

Tools

Open DOISci-Hub