A letter to david drake from a friend and a relation

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T1 - A letter to david drake from a friend and a relation

AU - Shockley, Evie

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © Oxford University Press 2018.

PY - 2018/1/1

Y1 - 2018/1/1

N2 - Shockley writes creatively in response to an inscription written on the side of the jar associated with the title of the collection. As a contemporary black woman and as a literary critic and a poet herself, Shockley seeks out her multifaceted relatedness to the person and legacy of Dave the Potter. In this hybrid of creative and scholarly writing, Shockley uses the format of the letter to imaginatively reply directly to “Dave.” In the process, Shockley transforms the terms of historical inquiry to better suit the diasporic terms of her relation to a “him” who is never finally in the past nor an object of impersonal history.

AB - Shockley writes creatively in response to an inscription written on the side of the jar associated with the title of the collection. As a contemporary black woman and as a literary critic and a poet herself, Shockley seeks out her multifaceted relatedness to the person and legacy of Dave the Potter. In this hybrid of creative and scholarly writing, Shockley uses the format of the letter to imaginatively reply directly to “Dave.” In the process, Shockley transforms the terms of historical inquiry to better suit the diasporic terms of her relation to a “him” who is never finally in the past nor an object of impersonal history.

KW - African American poetry

KW - Dave the potter

KW - David drake

KW - Natal alienation

KW - Reparations

KW - Slave relations

KW - Slavery studies

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U2 - 10.1093/oso/9780199390205.003.0003

DO - 10.1093/oso/9780199390205.003.0003

M3 - Chapter

SP - 51

EP - 57

BT - Where is all my Relation?

PB - Oxford University Press

ER -