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The extractive form of contemporary Black writing : Dionne Brand and Yaa Gyasi
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Okoth, Christine (2021) The extractive form of contemporary Black writing : Dionne Brand and Yaa Gyasi. Textual Practice, 35 (3). pp. 379-394. doi:10.1080/0950236X.2021.1886705 ISSN 0950-236X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2021.1886705
Abstract
This article suggests that the epistemological and ecological rubric of extraction offers an additional way to conceptualise the formal composition of race in contemporary Black literature. It develops the concept of extractive form through readings of Yaa Gyasi’s novel Homegoing (2016) and Dionne Brand’s longform lyric poem Inventory (2006), two texts in which extractive regimes and their logics are acknowledged, reshaped, and appropriated. Extraction, alongside the ship and ocean, functions as a central metaphor and formal strategy for the representation of global and transhistorical modes of racial subjection.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > English and Comparative Literary Studies | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Textual Practice | ||||||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0950-236X | ||||||||
Official Date: | 6 April 2021 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 35 | ||||||||
Number: | 3 | ||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 379-394 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1080/0950236X.2021.1886705 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Copyright Holders: | Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group |
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