Reading the Body Racial in Black Canadian/ Black Scottish Nonfiction
Dorothy Mills Proctor and Jackie Kay
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5246708 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Miasol Eguíbar Holgado (0000-0002-7110-4873, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 167-179 |
| Publication date | 2018-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | African American Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1062-4783 • E-ISSN: 1945-6182 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/afa.2018.0030 |
| OpenAlex | W2891952608 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 11 |
This essay compares two works of nonfiction and their various engagements with ontological and emotional dimensions of mixed-race subjectivities: I contrast the essay "Born Again Indian" (2010) by Canadian writer Dorothy Mills-Proctor with Scottish writer Jackie Kay's autobiography Red Dust Road (2011). The two writers share a biracial background (Mills-Proctor, black and Native; Kay, black and white) as well as the double displacement that comes from being women in a postcolonial context; therefore, both texts reveal similar representations of the function of the body as a signifier of race. These authors exploit the contingency inherent to racial attributions to create new readings of their racialized bodies and thus resist and redress colonial legacies of racism. Establishing a transatlantic dialogue between these authors and their coming to terms with (mixed-)race policies within the distinct spaces from which they write will illuminate some of the tendencies and directions that black Canadian writings currently exhibit
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| Citations per year | 0.29 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |