{"id":45812,"date":"2016-02-28T18:54:56","date_gmt":"2016-02-28T18:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45812"},"modified":"2017-03-19T15:31:39","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T15:31:39","slug":"terra-incognita-poems-by-adebe-derango-adem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45812","title":{"rendered":"Terra Incognita: Poems by Adebe DeRango-Adem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inanna.ca\/catalog\/terra-incognita\" target=\"_blank\">Terra Incognita: Poems by Adebe DeRango-Adem<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inanna.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Inanna Publications<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-25<br \/>\n80 Pages<br \/>\nISBN: 978-1-77133-217-0<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/adebe.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adebe DeRango-Adem<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.inanna.ca\/catalog\/terra-incognita\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.inanna.ca\/files\/4114\/3110\/1440\/terra_incognita_final_cover_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Titled after the Latin term for \u201cunknown land\u201d\u2014a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented\u2014<em>Terra Incognita<\/em> is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings buried in history\u2019s grand narratives. Set against the similarities as well as incongruities of the Canadian\/American backdrop of race relations, <em>Terra Incognita<\/em> explores the cultural memory and legacy of those whose histories have been the site of erasure, and who have thus\u2014riffing on the Heraclitus\u2019s dictum that \u201cgeography is fate\u201d\u2014been forced to redraw themselves into the texts of history. Finally, <em>Terra Incognita<\/em> is a collection that delves into the malleable borders of identity and questions what it means to move physically and spiritually, for our bodies to arrive and depart, our souls to relocate and change their scope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Titled after the Latin term for \u201cunknown land\u201d\u2014a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented\u2014&#8221;Terra Incognita&#8221; is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial discourses and interracial crossings buried in history\u2019s grand narratives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,19,125,8,1617,20],"tags":[2424,4627],"class_list":["post-45812","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-canada","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-poetry-books","category-usa","tag-adebe-derango-adem","tag-inanna-publications"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45812","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=45812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52631,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45812\/revisions\/52631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=45812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=45812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=45812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}