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From Margin to the (Canadian) Frontier: "The Wombs of Language" in M. Nourbese Philip's She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks
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In this close reading of M. Nourbese Philip's collection of poetry She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks, the author examines the revised Canadian literary cartography by Philip's complex poetry series. In her effort to foreground the "histories" of Africans in the New World and their entangled relationship to the history of the West, Philip ultimately challenges the "uni-verse-all" voice, while calling attention to the politics that underlie assertions of "universalism" and "objectivity." The author pinpoints a number of Western epistemologies that are the targets of Philip's re-vision: specifically Greek myth, Christianity, the English language/grammar and its impact on the …
