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Bezig met laden... Borderland Apocrypha (2020)door Anthony Cody
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"Borderland Apocrypha is centered around the collective histories of Mexican lynchings following the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo in 1848, and the subsequent erasures, traumas, and state-sanctioned violences committed towards communities of color in the present day. Cody's debut collection responds to the destabilized, hostile landscapes and silenced histories via an experimental poetic that invents and shapeshifts in both form and space across the margin, the page, and the book's axis in a resistance, a reclamation and a re-occupation of what has been omitted. Part autohistoria, part docupoetic, part visual monument, part myth-making, Borderland Apocrypha exhumes the past in order to work toward survival, reckoning, and future- building"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This book is about the poor treatment (from public mocking to lynchings) of Mexicans by the United States/Americans after the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. Which is interesting because Mexico/Spain was itself a colonizer. P 156 (Notes): "The ability to forget, reshape, and erase the histories of "the other" and the atrocities committed against "the other" by the United States, its agents and citizens, allow these acts to become part of the fabric of the nation." Yet that is exactly what he has done by framing Mexicans living in newly acquired territories as only victims, and also as the only victims. Only in the acknowledgements does the author recognize the native peoples--and only those who lived on the specific lands he has lived in and written on.
I have now read all 10 2020 NBA Poetry longlisted books. This would rank 9th for me. Interestingly, the author of my 10th is thanked by this author. I don't believe any of the others appear in his acknowledgements (though there are lots of names in these hard-to-read long lines, I might have missed someone else!). ( )