{"id":35868,"date":"2014-02-17T21:07:35","date_gmt":"2014-02-17T21:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35868"},"modified":"2014-02-17T21:07:35","modified_gmt":"2014-02-17T21:07:35","slug":"continuous-frieze-bordering-red","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35868","title":{"rendered":"Continuous Frieze Bordering Red"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fordhampress.com\/index.php\/continuous-frieze-bordering-red-cloth.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Continuous Frieze Bordering Red<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fordhampress.com\" target=\"_blank\">Fordham University Press<\/a><br \/>\nApril 2012<br \/>\n78 pages<br \/>\n8 1\/2 x 8 1\/2<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 9780823243044<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 9780823243051<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellenakapierce.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Michelle Naka Pierce<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor<br \/>\nJack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics<br \/>\n<em>Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fordhampress.com\/index.php\/continuous-frieze-bordering-red-cloth.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/fordhampress.com\/media\/catalog\/product\/cache\/1\/image\/200x296\/17f82f742ffe127f42dca9de82fb58b1\/9\/7\/9780823243044_6.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Continuous Frieze Bordering Red<\/em> documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons, and shifting identities. A narrative on hybridity, the text explores [dis]location as a cultural swerve while it interrogates <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Rothko\" target=\"_blank\">Rothko\u2019s<\/a> red: his bricked-in, water-damaged windows [floating borders], which reflect unstable cultural borders to the hybrid. A person of mixed race [hybrid, mongrel, mutt] traverses these \u201cinvisible\u201d cultural borders repeatedly. Border identity comes with flux, instability, and vibrational pulls. An Other is marked as someone who does not belong. She is always a foreigner: when traveling and when at \u201chome.\u201d She is cast aside, bracketed from the dominant culture. She is [neither][nor][both]. She exists in a liminal space: in place and displaced simultaneously. That is, her identity and body are peripatetic, which is reflected in the continuous horizontal frieze. The reader must literally cross the borders of each page in order to navigate each line of text, leaving the reader in constant motion as well. The poem also functions as an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/ekphrasis\" target=\"_blank\">ekphrasis<\/a> of Rothko\u2019s Seagram murals: Rothko writes that the paintings make the observers \u201cfeel that they are trapped in a room where all the doors and windows are bricked up.\u201d The hybrid is confined and isolated. Even though the Other is estranged from herself and desires a sense of cultural belonging, she ultimately wants to \u201cacknowledge this scar tissue and proceed\u201d so that she is not held to false measures of \u201cpurity.\u201d <em>Continuous Frieze Bordering Red<\/em> attempts to move away from pejorative definitions of \u201chybrid\u201d and embrace the monstrous self.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Continuous Frieze Bordering Red Fordham University Press April 2012 78 pages 8 1\/2 x 8 1\/2 Hardcover ISBN: 9780823243044 Paperback ISBN: 9780823243051 Michelle Naka Pierce, Associate Professor Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics Naropa University, Boulder, Colorado Continuous Frieze Bordering Red documents the migratory patterns of an Other, as she travels between countries, languages, seasons, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,1617],"tags":[6363,16993],"class_list":["post-35868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","tag-fordham-university-press","tag-michelle-naka-pierce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}