Archivando poéticas corporalescuerpos atravesados por raza y género en Concentrate de Courtney Faye Taylor.

  1. Carla Abella Rodríguez
Book:
Voces eclipsadas: una mirada hacia las nuevas poéticas corporales
  1. Sofía Bernardo Méndez (coord.)
  2. María Fernández Rodríguez (coord.)
  3. Pilar Arantegui Gallardo (coord.)

Publisher: Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca ; Universidad de Salamanca

ISBN: 978-84-1311-886-4

Year of publication: 2023

Pages: 115-128

Type: Book chapter

Abstract

This article examines the poetics of Concentrate (2022), Courtney Faye Taylor’s debutpoetry collection. Taylor’s experimental work centres the much-overlooked killing of Blackteenager Latasha Harlins in 1991. The purpose of this research is to dissect the intersectionsbetween anti-Blackness and gender. In the analysis, Black women and girls come to the foreas criminalised and disposable entities. Black women’s bodies are hypervisible and subjectto a violent reading that hollows them of any subjectivity. The poet becomes an archivistof memories in charge of memorialising the disappearing body, as writing the past appearsas an act of resistance.