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Copyright 2017 by M. NourbeSe Philip
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Nourbese Philip, Marlene, author
Blank : essays and interviews / M. NourbeSe Philip. First edition.
(Essais ; no. 3)
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-77166-306-9 (softcover)
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I. Title. II. Series: Essais (Toronto, Ont.) ; no. 3
PS8581.H542B53 2017 C814.54 C2017-902636-4
C2017-902637-2
cover image c/o NASA Image and Video Library
cover design and layout by Kate Hargreaves
...thats all them bastards have left us: words
Derek Walcott
Earlier versions of these essays were printed in several books and journals.
The Mercury Press published two of my previous essay collections. Frontiers (1992) included:
The Disappearing Debate: Or, How the Discussion of
Racism Has Been Taken Over by the Censorship Issue
Disturbing the Peace
Echoes in a Stranger Land
A Long-Memoried Woman
Letter, January 1989: How Do You Explain?
Letter, July 1990: Conversations across Borders
Letter, June 1991: James Baldwin
Letter, September 1990: Am I a Nigger? Incident at Congress
Social Barbarism and the Spoils of Modernism
Whos Listening? Artists, Audiences and Language
A Genealogy of Resistance and Other Essays (1997) included earlier versions of:
Caribana: African Roots and Continuities
Dis PlaceThe Space Between
Six Million Dollars and Still Counting was published in my book
Showing Grit: Showboating North of the 44th Parallel (Poui Pub-lications, 1993).
Interview with an Empire first appeared in Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally (Wesleyan UP, 2003).
Dream Analysis appeared online on Visual Verse: An Anthology of Art and Words.
The Journal Alt. Theatre: Cultural Diversity and the Stage published The Warm-and-Fuzzies; Or, How to Go to the Opera and Not Feel Guilty
ASAP / Journal printed Banana Republics of Poetry
Rabble published Peaceful Violence.
My thanks to these publications and their editors.
Thanks also to Jay MillAr and Hazel Millar at BookThug for publishing Bla_K.
Our society is one in which social amnesia flourishes and memory is its casualty. In relation to the struggle against anti-Black racism in Toronto, many, many people not only talked the talk, but walked the walk, not necessarily in high-profile ways, but steadily and quietly in as many different ways as there are people. They all helped to humanize this city and country and contributed to us, African Canadians, feeling a greater sense of be/longing in a stranger land. Many are forgotten or not known. It often appears as if prior to this moment there was no struggle on the part of African Canadians. The fight today is only possible because of those who went before and who fought back against those forces that appear so much more brazen today in their attempts to reduce us once again to nothingness. Most importantly, I acknowledge and thank the First Nations of this beautiful land, strange to us, but which has provided us, orphaned by history, succour and a place to be/long.
Miigwetch.
With this in mind, I offer Shout-Outs to the individuals, allies and organizations who, over the last twenty-five years, have been a part of that struggle. I will no doubt omit many through ignorance or the limitations of my memory; for these omissions, I apologize. In no particular order they are:
Organizations: Black Education Project, Harriet Tubman Centre (this now-defunct organization was started by the YMCA on Robina Avenue in Toronto in 1973); Black Secretariat; Third World Books and Crafts; Tropicana; BADC; CIUT-FM; Caribana; Congress of Black Women; b current; Underground Railroad Restaurant; Pelican Players; Share; Contrast; Pride; Sister Vision Books; Coalition for the Truth About Africa (CFTA); A Different Booklist.
Individuals: Juanita Westmoreland Traore; Salome Bey and Howard Matthews; Gwen and Lenny Johnson; Owen Leach (Sankofa); Lennox Farrell; Cosmos; Rita Cox; Clem Marshall; Enid Lee; Diana Braithwaite; Ken Jeffers; Ayanna Black; Loris Elliott; Jeff Henry; Frances Henry; Alice Williams (Curve Lake Reserve); Charles and Hetty Roach; Sherona Hall; Cameron Bailey; Sistah Lois; Monifa; Itah Sadhu; Norman Otis Richmond; Mark Campbell; Diane Roberts; Vivine Scarlett; Grace Channer; Sandra Brewster; Alfred and Lorraine (neighbours); Louise (neighbour); Chloe Onari; Winston Smith; Dudley Laws; Afua Cooper; George Elliott Clarke; Rinaldo Walcott; Brenda Joy Lem; Robin Pacific; ahdri zhina mandiela; Rosemary Sadlier; Lillian Allen; Wendy Komiotis; Keren Brathwaite; Clifton Joseph; Dionne Brand; Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta; Arnold Auguste; Herbert Boland; De Dub poets; Joyce Britton; Akua Benjaminthe list is long and by no means exhaustive.
Thank you to Julie Joosten and Paul Chamberlain.
And in all the languages of loss, thank you to the Ancestors.
Ase
Whoever is uprooted himself uproots others. Whoever is rooted in himself doesnt uproot others.
Simone Weil1
[T]he singing voice invariably revises the signing voice, it marks a point of exorbitant originality for African American cultures and expressivities....the singing voice, the originality, stands above all as a disturbance of New World configurations of value, a disturbance decried by the West from the earliest moments of contact with African and African diasporic cultures.
Lindon Barrett2
The struggle against embedded journalism is not just being trapped in a green zone and how you break out of it, but how do you break out of a mental green zone that were conditioned to embrace.
Jeremy Scahill3
Social amnesia is societys repression of remembrancesocietys own past. It is a psychic commodity of the commodity society.
Russell Jacoby4
I write memory on the margins of history, in the shadow of empire and on the frontier of Silence; I write against the grain as an unembedded, disappeared poet and writer in Canada; I write from a place of multiple identitiesBlack, African-descended, female, immigrant (or interloper) and Caribbeanwhich often by their very nature generate hostilities within the body politic of a so-called multicultural nation. And what better place to write an introduction to this work than Tobago, the island of my birth, to which Ive been making annual pilgrimages for the last thirty-five years. Some ten years of those visits were intended to bring my father, suffering from dementia and resident in Trinidad, on annual trips back to the island he called home, a place he loved dearly and which he wanted to see become independent of Trinidad.5 As I walk past the spot where one of the houses I grew up in used to be, or drive past the Catholic school I went to as a child, where one of the nuns ran hurtling down the hill pursued by a bull, I often wonder what pulls me back here year after yearsometimes for as little as a week, at others for as long as eighteen months when my partner and I brought our young children to live and attend school here. This island has grounded my life in poetry and in writing; it often frustrates me, as it did my father and many others, leading him to move the entire family to Trinidad, where he felt the schooling was better, thus starting another train of exile and longing for belonging. And some mornings the ocean is at least three shades of blue; at other times grey and sullen, and always it is enough.
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