Continuous Frieze Bordering Red - Michelle Naka Pierce

Continuous Frieze Bordering Red

Buch | Hardcover
78 Seiten
2012
Fordham University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8232-4304-4 (ISBN)
56,10 inkl. MwSt
Continuous Frieze Bordering [Red] documents the migratory patterns of an Other as she travels between countries, languages, and shades of Rothko’s red. A narrative on hybridity, the text navigates the instability of cultural border identities and functions as an ekphrasis of Rothko’s bricked-in, water-damaged windows in his Seagram murals.
Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons, and shifting identities. A narrative on hybridity, the text explores [dis]location as a cultural swerve while it interrogates Rothko’s red: his bricked-in, water-damaged windows [floating borders], which reflect unstable cultural borders to the hybrid. A person of mixed race [hybrid, mongrel, mutt] traverses these “invisible” cultural borders repeatedly. Border identity comes with flux, instability, and vibrational pulls. An Other is marked as someone who does not belong. She is always a foreigner: when traveling and when at “home.” She is cast aside, bracketed from the dominant culture. She is [neither][nor][both]. She exists in a liminal space: in place and displaced simultaneously. That is, her identity and body are peripatetic, which is reflected in the continuous horizontal frieze. The reader must literally cross the borders of each page in order to navigate each line of text, leaving the reader in constant motion as well. The poem also functions as an ekphrasis of Rothko’s Seagram murals: Rothko writes that the paintings make the observers “feel that they are trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up.” The hybrid is confined and isolated. Even though the Other is estranged from herself and desires a sense of cultural belonging, she ultimately wants to “acknowledge this scar tissue and proceed” so that she is not held to false measures of “purity.” Continuous Frieze Bordering Red attempts to move away from pejorative definitions of “hybrid” and embrace the monstrous self.

Born in Japan, Michelle Naka Pierce is Associate Professor of Writing & Poetics and Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. Among her most recent publications are She: A Blueprint and Beloved Integer. Her work has appeared in journals such as American Letters & Commentary, Trickhouse, Mandorla, Rain Taxi, and Teachers and Writers.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 2.4.2012
Reihe/Serie Poets Out Loud
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 216 x 216 mm
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
ISBN-10 0-8232-4304-4 / 0823243044
ISBN-13 978-0-8232-4304-4 / 9780823243044
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