
The Dyzgraphxst
Canisia Lubrin(Author)
McClelland & Stewart Inc. (Publisher)
Published on 24. March 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-0-7710-4869-2 (ISBN)
Description
Canisia Lubrin returns with a mesmerizing new collection, the follow-up to her breakout book, Voodoo Hypothesis.
The Dyzgraphxst presents seven inquiries into selfhood through the perennial figure Jejune. Polyvocal in register, the book moves to mine meanings of kinship through the wide and intimate reach of language across geographies and generations. Against the contemporary backdrop of intensified capitalist fascism, toxic nationalism, and climate disaster, the figure Jejune asks, how have I come to make home out of unrecognizability. Marked by and through diasporic life, Jejune declares, I was not myself. I am not myself. My self resembles something having nothing to do with me.
The Dyzgraphxst presents seven inquiries into selfhood through the perennial figure Jejune. Polyvocal in register, the book moves to mine meanings of kinship through the wide and intimate reach of language across geographies and generations. Against the contemporary backdrop of intensified capitalist fascism, toxic nationalism, and climate disaster, the figure Jejune asks, how have I come to make home out of unrecognizability. Marked by and through diasporic life, Jejune declares, I was not myself. I am not myself. My self resembles something having nothing to do with me.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Toronto
Canada
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7710-4869-2 (9780771048692)
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Canisia Lubrin