Reading the Hieroglyph: The Em Dash in Action Open Access
Pierson, Amon (Spring 2022)
Abstract
This project is a literary account of the position of black women in with society. Occupying the space of a fundamental nothing that cannot be recovered, the figure of the black woman is of the hieroglyph, or the em dash (—). As such, black women exist in a space of indeterminacy that defines their existence. Using literary analysis methodologies, this text reads Richard Wright’s Native Son for an image of the violence that exposes the hieroglyph, and Toi Derricotte’s poem, “On the Turning Up of Unidentified Black Female Corpses,” to discover the nuances of the hieroglyph. This project is a radical re—formulation of our relation to language, our signifiers of existence.
Table of Contents
Introduction: The Analytics of the Hieroglyph; or the —………………………………………..1
Chapter 1: Exposure of the Hieroglyph………………………………………………………....12
Chapter 2: Wonders of the Hieroglyph…………………………………………………………..36
Conclusion: Moving Forward……………………………………………………………………53
Bibliography………………………………………………………………………………...…...56
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