A nice piece over at X Poetics (their description: X Poetics is a collaborative blog edited by Robin Tremblay-McGaw (San Francisco), Kathy Lou Schultz (Memphis), and Jim Brashear (New York)) on Harryette Mullen’s genealogical project: Harryette Mullen: Where the Bodies Are Buried.
A good description of her work from the article/entry: “Rather than placing them under lock and key in order to solidify, arrest, and exclude racist and sexist discourses, Mullen re-makes the encyclopedia—the discourse and its attendant pedagogies—through her recycling of its material alphabets, grammars, metaphors, and other tropes. She interrogates and improvises, and then re-uses them, stretching them to their utmost. In the process, these discursive investigations reveal the often unmarked and unnamed structurings of various internecine ideologies.”
