ENG364Y1 Lecture 4: Lecture 4 - Pat Parker
Document Summary
Not confessional in the same way but comes out of the confessional school. Public performance of work; speaking to/for/with other women etc. Playing with oral traditions and the way it looks on a page. Meant to be read out loud and experience. Putting black female queer lives in the centre. Critical of white feminist circles, sexist circles, etc. Humour = used in a lot of her work; double consciousness double sight in irony. One would assume the speaker is male. Trying to define without definitively pinning down the lover. Carving out a space for what she is not plethora of identities/spaces for thinking about the lover. Don"t get a focus on the body but about actions. Not something that insists on an identity. No capitalization and indentation not something you can read. Form does not precede content; form derives from content. Goat = devil; devil child (the father wanted a son and other health complications)
