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dc.contributor.authorSmith, Dolsy
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-20T12:49:45Z
dc.date.available2020-04-20T12:49:45Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttp://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/37342
dc.description.abstractWe are living through the wrack of the White Male. As the compact between social hierarchy, inherited privilege, and race (reinforced by gender and other normative categories) shows signs of buckling, his rage and resentment threaten us all. For he is a thing possessed: possessed by his own love of possession, and born to a sense that the world belongs to him and him alone. The spoils of oppression lie coiled inside him, a glut he can’t digest, and murder beckons behind the respect that he conceives of as his due." A hybrid of critical essay and memoir, and Rough Notes to Erasure contributes to a growing body of work that wrestles with the tacit and embodied nature of privilege and prejudice, and it contributes not only via argument but also through style. Taking inspiration from feminist/queer poetics and what Fred Moten calls “the black avant-garde,” these rough notes address the remainder that gets lost in explicit argument, which is the flesh. Where privilege roils through history, and empire whets the appetites. But also where the world catches on its own fractalization by thought, feeling, and desire; and language recovers, for a moment or two, the power to entangle us with our mother tongue.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::D Biography, Literature and Literary studies::DN Biography and non-fiction prose::DNC Memoirsen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBF Social and ethical issues::JBFA Social discrimination and social justiceen_US
dc.subject.otherwhite privilegeen_US
dc.subject.othercompositionen_US
dc.subject.otherracismen_US
dc.subject.othermemoiren_US
dc.subject.otherdecolonialityen_US
dc.subject.othermasculinityen_US
dc.subject.othercollege educationen_US
dc.titleRough Notes to Erasure
dc.title.alternativeWhite Male Privilege, My Senses, and the Story I Cannot Tellen_US
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doi10.21983/P3.0287.1.00
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy979dc044-00ee-4ea2-affc-b08c5bd42d13en_US
oapen.relation.isbn9781950192809
oapen.relation.isbn9781950192793
oapen.collectionScholarLed
oapen.pages330en_US
oapen.place.publicationBrooklyn, NYen_US


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