C.S.Giscombe's Giscombe Road and Nikky Finney's Rice are arguably book-length poems that construct an environmental consciousness through the lens of Black identity.Of importance in each is the use of material...C.S.Giscombe's Giscombe Road and Nikky Finney's Rice are arguably book-length poems that construct an environmental consciousness through the lens of Black identity.Of importance in each is the use of material culture-maps,encyclopedia entries,schematic illustrations,and photographs-to construct the texts.Finney's work tends to use photographs as supplements to her work,that is as illustrations which are intended to humanize against the grain of anti-Blackness;however,the materials in Giscombe's collection are parts of a whole,not supplements,but quoted texts albeit utilizing a different visual modality.While there is a distinction between their use of material culture,Finney and Giscombe nonetheless create eco-graphies-autobiographies that situate and map oneself in a history of ecologies.展开更多
文摘C.S.Giscombe's Giscombe Road and Nikky Finney's Rice are arguably book-length poems that construct an environmental consciousness through the lens of Black identity.Of importance in each is the use of material culture-maps,encyclopedia entries,schematic illustrations,and photographs-to construct the texts.Finney's work tends to use photographs as supplements to her work,that is as illustrations which are intended to humanize against the grain of anti-Blackness;however,the materials in Giscombe's collection are parts of a whole,not supplements,but quoted texts albeit utilizing a different visual modality.While there is a distinction between their use of material culture,Finney and Giscombe nonetheless create eco-graphies-autobiographies that situate and map oneself in a history of ecologies.
