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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Main Author: Héloïse Thomas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Université du Sud Toulon-Var 2019-12-01
Series:Babel: Littératures Plurielles
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/babel/7933