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The Obituary

The Obituary

Scott, Gail

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Literary Fiction

Publisher Price: $17.95

ISBN10: 1552452336
ISBN13: 9781552452332
Publisher: Coach House Books
Published: Oct 1 2012
Pages: 167
Language: English
In order to traverse a city where identity is tagged by accent, Rosine, Gail Scott's part-Indigenous protagonist, performs an ever-shifting amalgam, ventriloquizing often suspect voices, both contemporaneous and ancestral. Her inability to claim a legacy becomes a trajectory of disjunctions where place, language, and race are lived through in the most detailed ways, fostering schisms that challenge what narrative has come to mean under the rubric of the novel. Though a mystery, possibly involving murder, The Obituary is less a whodunit than an investigation of who speaks when one speaks.

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