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Title: The brown body as thirdspace: Ta-Nehisi Coates "Between the World and Me"

Creator:

Zeeuw, Diane

Date:

2020

Resource Type:

rozdział w książce

Contributor:

Mobley, Agnieszka - red. nauk. ; Fondo, Blossom N. - red. nauk. ; Filipczak, Iwona - red. nauk.

Group publication title:

Scripta Humana, 15

Abstract:

Edward Soja`s work regarding spatial understanding has become key to discerning a radical shift in the way we frame and then reason about otherness, and more specifically, exclusion. But rather than viewing otherness and exclusion as merely the result of relationships reproduced within our "environment", author and political analyst Ta-Nehisi Coates suggests that it is the vulnerable black or brown body that has historically been the site for the violent performance of racism. ; Thus, this paper filters Coates` recently released book "Between the World and Me" through Soja`s work to demonstrate how the body itself can function as "thirdspace". Coates` text, I argue, traces a complex multilayered geography of fantasy, myth, beauty, and horror as it has been visited upon the corporeal body. ; Hence, what appears on the surface to be a personal reflection on vulnerability and survival also exposes the material body as a palimpsest of violence inscribed from person-to-person, community-to-community, (and even as Coates himself points out), father to son. In doing so, he offers us a raw and often very sincere rumination upon his father`s and his own often-unwitting collusion with an ongoing cycle of violence. ; However, Coates also sees a way to move beyond the limitations of the present. By stylistically adopting the format of an extended confessional note addressed to his young son, Coates not only queries his own past, but also sends a very personal message of love and hope into the future.

Publisher:

Zielona Góra: Oficyna Wydawnicza Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego

Format:

application/pdf

Resource Identifier:

oai:zbc.uz.zgora.pl:78311

Pages:

119-129

Source:

Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego: Seria Scripta Humana, tom 15

Language:

pol

Rights:

Biblioteka Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego

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Feb 23, 2024

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Feb 23, 2024

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All available object's versions:

https://zbc.uz.zgora.pl/repozytorium/publication/87676

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