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M. NourbeSe Philip

Author of Zong!

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Canonical name
Philip, M. NourbeSe
Other names
Philip, Marlene Nourbese
Birthdate
1947-02-03
Gender
female
Education
University of the West Indies
Occupations
lawyer
poet
novelist
Organizations
York University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
University of Toronto
Nationality
Canada
Birthplace
Moriah, Tobago
Places of residence
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Trinidad & Tobago
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Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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REQUIRED READING FOR A DECOLONIZED WORLD. This should be the first book in any decolonized reading list of poetry. The essay at the end on language, power, and colonization is the most brilliant thing I've read in years on the subject. I wanted to cheer and weep while reading it. The struggle to make a language for ones imaginative capacity as a woman, a woman decontextualized and colonized, in a "politely but vehemently racist" society -- though I am not an African Caribbean and so that show more particular facet struggle I can only witness and listen and learn to understand -- that struggle she describes to destroy or decenter language in order to allow it to express the imaginative capacity of this female, foreign, colonial subject, no where have I seen it better articulated.

Read it, and then read it again, and then read it again until you know it in your blood.
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Com muito esforço consegui terminar esse livro no Dia da Consciência Negra.
Esforço porque é o livro mais difícil que li na vida e tive que lê-lo aos pouquinhos devido ao cansaço que me dava, o li sóbria, o li com vinho, mas nada arrefecia sua dificuldade.
Tal dificuldade não se devia apenas ao experimentalismo da linguagem que segue os revezes do contraponto musical, com idas e vindas com quebras de palavras e sintaxe, mas ver o reflexo histórico desse desespero linguístico na show more saga do navio Zong do século XVIII, em que centenas de escravos foram atirados ao mar por ser mais lucrativo do que levá-los ao seu destino.
Todos esses espaços e quebras são silêncios e falta de ar dos que morreram naquele navio, transposto em forma de linguagem de maneira tão brilhante que não me resta nada mais do que ir em busca dos outros livros de Marlene NourbeSe Philip.
Se a autora levou quase dez anos para escrever tal épico, quem sou eu para reclamar da dificuldade de lê-lo? O que resta é apenas seu brilhantismo.
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Harriet's Daughter is an interesting story about fourteen-year-old Margaret. She is trying had to be someone with 'style and class.' But the more she tries to come to terms with growing-up, relationships and responsibilities, the more things become confusing and her father's threat of 'Good West Indian Discipline' seems to be always at hand. But no matter what Margaret's insights continue to be profound.

http://inkwellbook.blogspot.ca/2013/10/review-harriets-daughter-by-m-nourbese.ht...
Right now I'm feeling it's one of the best books of poetry I've ever read. I actually can't think of anything that's blown me away, page by page, to the same degree...

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ISBNs
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