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Gibson, Chantal N.
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Women, Black -- Race identity -- Canada -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- Black authors.
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Gibson, Chantal N.
Women, Black -- Race identity -- Canada -- Poetry.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- Black authors.
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How she read : poems / Chantal Gibson.
by
Gibson, Chantal N.
Caitlin Press, 2019.
Call #:
819.16 G448h
Subjects
Women
,
Black
--
Race
identity
--
Canada
--
Poetry
.
Canadian
poetry
--
21st century.
Canadian
poetry
--
Women
authors.
Canadian
poetry
--
Black
authors.
ISBN:
9781987915969 (softcover)
Description:
104 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"How She Read is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of
Black
women
, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history, art, media and pop culture, Chantal Gibson's sassy semiotics highlight the depth and duration of the imperialist ideas embedded in everyday things, from storybooks to coloured pencils, from paintings to postage stamps. A mediation on motherhood and daughterhood, belonging, loss and recovery, the collection weaves the voices of
Black
women
, past and present. As Gibson dismantles the grammar of her Queen Elizabeth English, sister scholars talk back, whisper, suck teeth, curse and carry on from canonized texts, photographs and art gallery walls, reinterpreting their image, re-reading their bodies and claiming their space in a white, hegemonic landscape. Using genre-bending dialogue poems and ekphrasis, Gibson reveals the dehumanizing effects of mystifying and simplifying images of Blackness. Undoing the North Star freedom myth, Harriet Tubman and Viola Desmond shed light on the effects of erasure in the time of reconciliation and the dangers of squeezing the past into a
Canada
History Minute or a single postage stamp. Centrefolds Delia and Marie Therese discuss their naked
Black
bodies and what it means to be enslaved, a human subject of art and an object of science, while Veronica? tells it like it is, what it means to hang with the Group of Seven on the walls of the Art Gallery of Ontario amongst the lakes, the glaciers, the mountains and the dying trees. Supported by the voices of
Black
women
writers, the poems unloose the racist misogyny, myths, tropes and stereotypes
women
of colour continue to navigate every day. Thoughtful, sassy, reflective and irreverent, How She Read leaves a
Black
mark on the landscape as it illustrates a writer's journey from passive receiver of racist ideology to active cultural critic in the process of decolonizing her mind."--From publisher.
Genre:
Canadian
poetry
.
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