Autore
Coppola, Manuela

Titolo
"This is, not was": M. NourbeSe Philip's Language of Modernity
Periodico
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Anno: 2013 - Fascicolo: 2 - Pagina iniziale: 67 - Pagina finale: 82

As Ian Baucom (2005) has pointed out, the 1781 massacre on the slave shipZong and its representations are central not only to the "political andcultural archives of the black Atlantic, but to the history of modern capital,ethics, and time consciousness". Contesting the notion that the legaldocuments produced in the Zong case are the only available testimony ofthe lives of the slaves thrown overboard, M. NourbeSe Philip's recent work,Zong! (2008a), invites a dismantling of that archive, its deconstruction andexplosion in order to find different ways of telling what cannot be expressed.In particular, the article will show how, by reconfiguring the role of gapsand silences, Philip engages history rather than merely representing it, thusurging for a more radically unsettling language to inhabit modernity.



SICI: 1824-3967(2013)2<67:"INWMN>2.0.ZU;2-5
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