Eco-graphy and the Performative Long Poem:***'s Giscome Road and Nikky Finney's Rice

作     者：James McCorkle 

作者机构：Hobart and William Smith Colleges 

出 版 物：《Journal of Foreign Languages and Cultures》 (外国语言与文化（英文）)

年 卷 期：2021年第5卷第1期

页      面：43-52,156页

学科分类：0502[文学-外国语言文学] 050201[文学-英语语言文学] 05[文学] 

主　　题：Giscombe Finney ecology autobiography ekphrasis diaspora 

摘      要：*** s Giscombe Road and Nikky Finney s Rice are arguably book-length poems that construct an environmental consciousness through the lens of Black *** importance in each is the use of material culture-maps,encyclopedia entries,schematic illustrations,and photographs-to construct the *** 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 *** 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.