The invisible blackness of Harryette Mullen's poetry: Writing, miscegenation, and what remains to be seen
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This essay addresses the poetics of Harryette Mullen, an awarded African-American female poet whose work questions the boundaries that shape the expectations for accessible intelligibility in African-American literature. Mullen's poems skirt the edges of intelligibility by going beyond the expectations for a visible/intelligible form of language that would embrace the experience of blackness. I argue that writing in Mullen's poetry works as process of miscegenation by playing on the illegibility of blackness, beyond a visible line of distinction between what is or should be considered part of blackness itself, which engages new forms of reflection on poetry as a politically meaningful tool for rethinking the role of the black (female) poet within the black diaspora.
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(In)visibility, Harryette Mullen, Miscegenation, Poetry, Writing
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Revista de Letras, v. 52, n. 1, p. 101-120, 2012.
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