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Title: | Writing on the Margins: M. NourbeSe Philip and Questions of be/longing | Authors: | Gonçalves, Beatriz Marques | Keywords: | M. NourbeSe Philip; identity; migration | Issue Date: | 14-Feb-2023 | Publisher: | CILM (Centro Internazionale di ricerca sulle Letterature Migranti) | Project: | 2022.13155.BD | Serial title, monograph or event: | Oltreoceano - Rivista sulle migrazioni | Volume: | 1 | Issue: | 21 | Place of publication or event: | Udine, Itália | Abstract: | Tobago-born M. NourbeSe Philip is a poet and essayist living in Toronto, Canada. Her work often focuses on her experiences as a poet who is a Black immigrant woman. Although physically in Can-ada, Philip asserts that she writes from Tobago, creating a metaphorical isthmus that connects the culture and peoples of two spaces that were once British colonies and that share the same official language. By analyzing a selection of poems from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks(1989) and essays from Bla_K: Essays & Interviews (2017), I aim at exploring how this metaphorical isthmus between Tobago and Canada is reflected in Philip’s work. Anchored to Fernando Ortiz’s concept of “transculturation” and Homi Bhabha’s concept of the “in-between,” I argue that Phil-ip’s poems and essays reflect how the poet negotiates her identity as a Black immigrant woman in a country such as Canada, and how this affects the way she moves in this cultural and geographic space. | URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/10316/105411 | ISSN: | 1973-9370 1972-4527 |
DOI: | 10.53154/Oltreoceano67 | Rights: | openAccess |
Appears in Collections: | I&D CES - Artigos em Revistas Internacionais |
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