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tjrober2 's review for:
Born Palestinian, Born Black
by Suheir Hammad
challenging
emotional
informative
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
What a fiery collection. I think i very much buy Hammad’s framing of race as a political position in relation to power structures. However, i struggled at times with imagery that fell into the trap of racial stereotyping, trying too much to detail caricatures of racial difference, without really unpacking its formations.
That isn’t the whole collection, thought. Really is personable and genuine in its mediation of the precarity of home and belonging and what they mean in relation to constant and totalizing violence. This collection really does feel ahead of its time, given how it problematizes how we understand both race and Palestine in this contemporary moment. Plan to revisit many many times.
That isn’t the whole collection, thought. Really is personable and genuine in its mediation of the precarity of home and belonging and what they mean in relation to constant and totalizing violence. This collection really does feel ahead of its time, given how it problematizes how we understand both race and Palestine in this contemporary moment. Plan to revisit many many times.