Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40368
Clara Burghelea
These poems address the manner in which white space lives in harmony with words or in the margins/ in between the lines of the poems. A good portion of meaning is found outside the written words; together with line breaks they teach the reader how to read the poems out loud and inside their minds. In these poems, white space plays several roles: it is a stylistic technique, it asks the reader to actively read the poem, and it visually creates an aesthetic.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40350
Mathuri Sivanesan
Rebecca Hall’s 2021 adaptation of Nella Larsen's Passing, establishes themes of safety in a visual context, examining the Black bodily experience in both white and Black spaces. Hall's use of greyscale lighting, diegetic & non-diegetic sounds, and, most importantly, omission, spotlights what it means to be Black in white space. In the same way Larsen’s story rejects the possibility of ever being safe as a Black person, regardless of whether one can pass as white or not, Hall's cinematic methodology reveals the character of Clare as both dangerous and yet always in danger. Controlling what the viewer is allowed to see, Hall presents a newfound method of storytelling that confronts Black violence in a manner that rejects the glorification of Black trauma, while also presenting the dangers Black persons face from merely existing in their body.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40345
Katie Andersen
Endometriosis and adenomyosis are chronic diseases which affect 1/10 people with uteruses and are drastically understudied and underserved in the Canadian healthcare system. Through experimentation with blank space on the page, this poem explores some aspects of what it means and how it feels to live with and seek treatment for these diseases.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40349
Olivia Palepoi
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40348
Doxa Zannou
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40347
Andrew Oram
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40359
Sandy Feinstein
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40352
Deborah Denise Herman
I have been ruminating lately on the notion of “white space,” “writer’s block,” and selfhood following a traumatic brain injury that caused word-finding problems during the acute phase of my recovery. I have coined the term, “neuropoetics” to denote the attempt to describe in poetry and flash fiction the experience of “drawing a blank” or being silenced by a medical condition. Attached you will find three poems for your consideration: “Memory Villanelle,” “The Invisible Woman,” and “In the Rehab Waiting Room.” I was inspired by Laurie Clements Lambeth’s statement regarding the use of formal structure in her poetry about her Multiple Sclerosis, the blurring of bodily boundaries: “I needed the cage of a villanelle—so restrictive, in that very few lines can truly further the poem along, and yet so obsessive a form—to house the poem” (171). I have tried the same technique to describe the connection between memory and identity. “The Invisible Woman” takes as much from the Marvel universe as H.G. Wells; in it, I use the figure of Sue Storm and her dubious gift of being ignored as representative of the experience of an “invisible disability,” or something neurological rather than physically identifiable. Finally, “In the Rehab Waiting Room” was accidentally inspired by Elizabeth Bishop’s famous poem, as per the epigraph. It was an early attempt to capture the feeling of being a “blank slate” or having that post-traumatic “blank stare” that avoids eye contact with others
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40344
Nicole Dufoe
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Pub Date : 2023-12-20DOI: 10.25071/2369-7326.40367
Divyansh Vyas
This is a paper on Austin Clarke’s short story from his collection of short stories titled, In This City. The story can be seen as being a part of Diaspora Studies, Immigrant Literature and Black Studies. The paper critically scrutinizes the short story based on the text and the context to argue how there was an absence of sustainable structures in the public sphere for black immigrant masculinities to sufficiently express themselves in a white heteronormative culture. Sociological ideas of Toby Miller and Erving Goffman are used to understand how black immigrant identities could only sufficiently be expressed in alternate sub-structures that remained isolated from the dominant white and heteronormative status quo. The central subject of “white space” of the issue is highly relevant to the paper’s exploration of how the systems of self-fashioning and revolution that exist in the public imagination are “incomplete” in their lack of reliability and sufficiency for black immigrants in Canada. Hence, their position in relation to aspirations of self-fashioning and revolution is one of ambiguity as the title of the paper itself states. The paper lays bare how these ambiguities are manufactured based on the chasm that exists between the ways in which the characters want to act and the ways of self-fashioning that society approves for them. It also explores how the systems of revolution are incomplete for them as there is an absence in terms of a revolutionary process that ensures stability and self-preservation.
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