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Refraction: Other bodies, liminality, and Ricoeur | Jacket2

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This series started with the intuition that certain works of art to which I am drawn translate the world for and through the liminal body, offering articulations that refract the straightforward, the literal, the dominant. What is the role of ambiguity and the inarticulable in these refractive poetries? Why are these qualities especially poignant for artists from the margins? How do the mechanisms of refraction allows these artists to achieve meaning and truth that is otherwise unlocatable? I. Otherness and the Unlocatable Although the poetics of slant is familiar, my intention has been to expand our appreciation and understanding by wading to other parts of the waters to describe the temperature and texture, and by focusing especially on artists from the margins. In Posts 1 and 2, I began to define what a poetics of refraction might encompass: a base-line that is disrupted, whereby new layers of meaning are made in the space of displacement between the base-line and the line-of-refrac

This series started with the intuition that certain works of art to which I am drawn translate the world for and through the liminal body, offering articulations that refract the straightforward, the literal, the dominant. What is the role of ambiguity and the inarticulable in these refractive poetries? Why are these qualities especially poignant for artists from the margins? How do the mechanisms of refraction allows these artists to achieve meaning and truth that is otherwise unlocatable ? I. Otherness and the Unlocatable Although the poetics of slant is familiar, my intention has been to ex

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