{"product_id":"how-she-read-chantal-gibson-9781987915969","title":"How She Read","description":"\u003ci\u003eHow She Read\u003c\/i\u003e is a collection of genre-blurring poems about the representation of Black women, their hearts, minds and bodies, across the Canadian cultural imagination. Drawing from grade-school vocabulary spellers, literature, history, art, media and pop culture, Chantal Gibson's sassy semiotics highlight the depth and duration of the imperialist ideas embedded in everyday things, from storybooks to coloured pencils, from paintings to postage stamps. A mediation on motherhood and daughterhood, belonging, loss and recovery, the collection\u003ci\u003e weaves\u003c\/i\u003e the voices of Black women, past and present. As Gibson \u003ci\u003edismantles \u003c\/i\u003ethe grammar of her Queen Elizabeth English, sister scholars talk back, whisper, suck teeth, curse and carry on from canonized texts, photographs and art gallery walls, \u003ci\u003ereinterpreting \u003c\/i\u003etheir image, \u003ci\u003ere-reading\u003c\/i\u003e their bodies and \u003ci\u003eclaiming\u003c\/i\u003e their space in a white, hegemonic landscape. Using genre-bending dialogue poems and ekphrasis, Gibson reveals the dehumanizing effects of mystifying and simplifying images of Blackness. Undoing the North Star freedom myth, Harriet Tubman and Viola Desmond shed light on the effects of erasure in the time of reconciliation and the dangers of squeezing the past into a Canada History Minute or a single postage stamp. Centrefolds Delia and Marie Therese discuss their naked Black bodies and what it means to be enslaved, a human subject of art and an object of science, while Veronica? tells it like it is, what it means to \u003ci\u003ehang\u003c\/i\u003e with the Group of Seven on the walls of the Art Gallery of Ontario amongst the lakes, the glaciers, the mountains and the dying trees. Supported by the voices of Black women writers, the poems \u003ci\u003eunloose\u003c\/i\u003e the racist misogyny, myths, tropes and stereotypes women of colour continue to navigate every day. Thoughtful, sassy, reflective and irreverent, \u003ci\u003eHow She Read \u003c\/i\u003eleaves a Black mark on the landscape as it\u003ci\u003e illustrates\u003c\/i\u003e a writer's journey from passive receiver of racist ideology to active cultural critic in the process of decolonizing her mind.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Chantal Gibson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1987915968\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781987915969\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Caitlin Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/21\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 104\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.35lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.80w x 0.30d","brand":"Chantal Gibson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48446039785727,"sku":"9781987915969","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c042acb6-d58f-4a6a-8305-1321d6ddc6ea.jpg?v=1777222222","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/how-she-read-chantal-gibson-9781987915969","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}