
The Obituary
Gail Scott(Author)
Nightboat Books (Publisher)
Will be published approx. on 21. June 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
220 pages
978-1-937658-03-8 (ISBN)
Description
In order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott's part-Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever-shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both contemporaneous and ancestral. Her inability to claim a legacy becomes a trajectory of disjunctions where place, language, and race are lived through in the most detailed ways, fostering schisms that challenge what narrative has come to mean under the rubric of the "novel." Though a mystery, possibly involving murder, The Obituary is less a whodunit than an investigation of who speaks when "one" speaks.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 165 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
295 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-937658-03-8 (9781937658038)
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Person
GAIL SCOTT is the author of essays, manifestos, short stories, and three other novels including My Paris. She teaches at the Universite de Montreal.