Body, landscape and topographic writing in Primitive Offensive by Dionne Brand

Abstract

This paper explores the relationship established in Primitive Offensive by Dionne Brand between landscape and language and how that link is medialized by the body. With the definition of “topographic writing” as a starting point –a productive category to think how Anglophone Caribbean poetry builds its relationship with landscape– fragments of Primitive Offensive in which there is a clear interlink between body and landscape through fragmentation as an aesthetic approach will be analyzed. The selection of poems covers the first narrative arc in the book, which extends from Canto I to IV, in which there is an obsessive search for the origin, search that would be revealed as an illusion in Brand’s work.

Keywords

• poesía del caribe anglófono
• dionne brand
• escritura topográfica
• cuerpo