ENGLISH 2RW6 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Audre Lorde, Physical Geography, Tabula Rasa
8 Dec 2016
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Indigenous struggles are as prevalent as ever now-> we are just hidden from them. We live in a world that we think is post- colonial, but it"s not. Issue one: marginalized genre in western society today. 32- >indigenous poetry can help decolonize the imagination. Takes us back to a deeply embodied self, our physical landscape we call home (cid:498)terra nullis(cid:499)- empty or unused. Pg. 200-> decolonization as a practice of memory and becoming a living story. Not many people express their ideas through original words anymore= music now. We are not exposed to it as much. Poetry is considered an elite practice-> and one must have the knowledge of all the terms and structure. Working with poetry as a marginalized person is a unique way of articulating the voices of the marginalized. Feelings, hopes, fears, dreams into language (cid:498)the useless of poetry, remembering the body(cid:499) All you need to write poetry is a body with feelings, you don"t need someone.
