Terra Incognita
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Terra Incognita

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Terra Incognita

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Titled after the Latin term for "unknown land"—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—Terra Incognita is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings both buried in the grand narratives of history and the everyday experiences of being mixed-race. The poet asks how the discourse of multiculturalism speaks to the particular history of interracial figures—a history that has remained largely silenced, and a people who have continued to experience inequity on various fronts. In this collection, the quest for identity in the interracial sense becomes part of the quest to unearth the territory of those who cross borders—racially, ethnically, culturally and geographically. Terra Incognita looks forward to the possibility of new poetic conventions and metaphoric structures to re-imagine the face of Canada's so-called multicultural milieu, and map the similar "psychic" spaces shared by different geographies (America and Canada, for example) and demographies (mixed-race populations). Poems seek to engage the cultural memory and legacy of those whose histories have been the site of erasure, and who have thus—riffing on the Heraclitus's dictum that "geography is fate"—been forced to redraw themselves into the texts of history. An important contribution to the history of Afro-Canadian and Afro-American arts and letters, Terra Incognita is at the frontlines of exploring what it means to be mixed-race in the world—within the nexus of both celebrations of diversity and the overcoming of oppressive structures using the creative medium.

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Publisher
Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Year
2015
ISBN
9781771332200
Topic
Letteratura
Subtopic
Poesia canadese

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. Also by Adebe Derango-Adem
  6. Contents
  7. Epigraph
  8. ex-future
  9. full with arrival
  10. my past lives
  11. tools for prayer
  12. my religion is language
  13. dialectics
  14. weatherman
  15. soul brother
  16. blood root
  17. dark continent
  18. black russians
  19. blues for Baraka, in memoriam
  20. bastardette
  21. whose bloodline is it, anyway?
  22. Dante’s Girl at a Latrice, 1862
  23. lady of the lakes
  24. marron inconnu
  25. everyone wants to be DuBois
  26. oltremare
  27. dragging sea chests around the bend
  28. to the yellowknife woman
  29. taciturn city
  30. new world
  31. ode to zong
  32. terra incognita
  33. poemagogy
  34. what they call paradise
  35. m(y)other
  36. terra nuova/anchors a-weigh
  37. stormwater
  38. sea star
  39. torchlit
  40. prayer in patina blue
  41. faith 101
  42. my religion is the sea
  43. travel tips
  44. Notes
  45. Acknowledgements
  46. About the Author