Inventories, Catalogs, and Venuses: Excavating the Archive in Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus
This article discusses archival and memorial work in the poetry collection Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis. I track Lewis’s experimental poetic strategies to confront and unsettle archival silences and erasures when it comes to Black female bodies in the archive of Transatlantic slave...
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openedition-oai:revues.org:babel_7933 https://doi.org/10.4000/babel.7933 urn:doi:10.4000/babel.7933 en https://journals.openedition.org/babel/7933 2020-01-17T01:00:00Z info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess article info:eu-repo/semantics/article urn:handle:20.500.13089/d5cf https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Inventories, Catalogs, and Venuses: Excavating the Archive in Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus Babel Université de Toulon info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/2263-4746 info:eu-repo/semantics/reference/issn/1277-7897 URI:https://journals.openedition.org/babel Thomas, Héloïse slavery memory American poetry (21st century) Black poetics experimental poetics Venus Voyage of the Sable Venus wake work archive mémoire esclavage poésie américaine (XXIe siècle) poésie expérimentale poésie noire américaine Venus Voyage of the Sable Venus archive This article discusses archival and memorial work in the poetry collection Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis. I track Lewis’s experimental poetic strategies to confront and unsettle archival silences and erasures when it comes to Black female bodies in the archive of Transatlantic slavery. These strategies resonate with Christina Sharpe’s wake work and Saidiya Hartman’s discussion of an ethical engagement with the archive. By striving to individuate the figure of the Black woman in history, and by predicating memorial work on a collective engagement with the past, Lewis paves the way for a radically new articulation of Black womanhood that shatters and goes beyond the hold of the archive. Cet article traite du travail d’archive et de mémoire dans le recueil Voyage of the Sable Venus de Robin Coste Lewis. Je mets au jour les stratégies que déploie Lewis dans sa poésie expérimentale pour confronter et déstabiliser les silences et oublis qui caractérisent la présence de femmes noires dans les archives de l’esclavage transatlantique. Ces stratégies font écho au concept de wake work de Christina Sharpe et à la discussion menée par Saidiya Hartman sur l’éthique de l’intervention en archive. En s’efforçant d’individuer la figure de la femme noire à travers l’histoire, et en faisant d’un engagement collectif avec le passé la base même du travail mémoriel, Lewis ouvre la voie pour une articulation radicalement nouvelle de la féminité noire, qui brise et dépasse le carcan de l’archive. |
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slavery memory American poetry (21st century) Black poetics experimental poetics Venus Voyage of the Sable Venus wake work archive mémoire esclavage poésie américaine (XXIe siècle) poésie expérimentale poésie noire américaine Venus Voyage of the Sable Venus archive |
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This article discusses archival and memorial work in the poetry collection Voyage of the Sable Venus by Robin Coste Lewis. I track Lewis’s experimental poetic strategies to confront and unsettle archival silences and erasures when it comes to Black female bodies in the archive of Transatlantic slavery. These strategies resonate with Christina Sharpe’s wake work and Saidiya Hartman’s discussion of an ethical engagement with the archive. By striving to individuate the figure of the Black woman in history, and by predicating memorial work on a collective engagement with the past, Lewis paves the way for a radically new articulation of Black womanhood that shatters and goes beyond the hold of the archive. |
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Inventories, Catalogs, and Venuses: Excavating the Archive in Robin Coste Lewis’s Voyage of the Sable Venus |
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