Blank is a collection of previously out-of-print essays and new works by one of Canada's most important writers and thinkers.
Through an engagement with her earlier work, M.
Nourbe Se 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 timeliness, recurrence, ongoingness, art, race, the body politic, 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.
Praise for Blank: Interviwes and Essays ``Poet, Essayist, Novelist, Playwright, Public Intellectual: M.
Nourbe Se Philip is the principal--and most principled--woman-of-letters in English right now.
Her every word is a must-read because she writes nothing that doesn't change everything.
She isn't politic; she's political.
Unabashedly.
Her ruthless truth-telling is page-turning and paradigm-overturning.
`` --George Elliott Clarke, Parliamentary Poet Laureate (2016-17) ``To read Blank--new essays as well as selected writings from her 1994 collection Frontiers--is to understand that Philip, in habitual eloquent and poetic prose, was warning us in 1994 about the dystopia of right wing populism, violent racism, and virulent sexism we witness unfolding right here, right now in 2017,`` --Dr.
Richard Douglas-Chin, Associate Professor, Department of English, University of Windsor ``In Blank: Interviews and Essays M.
Nourbe Se Philip shares how the lonely impossibility of black is an articulation of black life.
This collection, a gathering of her pas.
| World | The return of something that while still present has become unembedded from the world disappeared |
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| Blank | Interviwes and Interviews and |
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