Inventorys /
In this work of hybrid historiography, Sam Creely modulates the English sentence to map the ways anglophone imperial self-fashioning moves in and out of social coherence, investigating how syntactic requirements reflect colonial history and how the rules of language structure thought. Through scenes...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oakland, California :
Omnidawn Publishing,
[2025].
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| Summary: | In this work of hybrid historiography, Sam Creely modulates the English sentence to map the ways anglophone imperial self-fashioning moves in and out of social coherence, investigating how syntactic requirements reflect colonial history and how the rules of language structure thought. Through scenes including intimate encounters with dye, fabric and garments, Creely reveals the sexual and racial grammars of empire. Inventorys takes as its point of departure the voyage, shipwreck and eventual excavation of the Spanish trade vessel El Nuevo Constante. Animated by the image of sixty thousand pounds of dye bleeding into the Gulf of Mexico, this six-part poetic documentation follows the wreckage of the Constante linguistically, moving among early modern lexicography and ultimately toward enmeshed histories of catalog, fabrication and revision. |
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| Physical Description: | 96 pages ; 23 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781632431639 1632431637 |