Open AccessDiaspora: Dislocation and its Resentment, or, the Impossible Dialogue of “Safe Space"
Author(s) -
Essya M. Nabbali
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
canadian journal of disability studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1929-9192
DOI - 10.15353/cjds.v8i4.528
Subject(s) - resentment , dislocation , space (punctuation) , diaspora , solitude , art , philosophy , literature , theology , physics , law , condensed matter physics , political science , linguistics , politics
I’m lost. I’m confused. I’m frustrated, even angered. Sometimes I’m told one thing; otherwise I’m expecting another. I’m at a distance of so much, looking on or over, betwixt and between, under, cross-, multi-, trans-, poly-… What is intra-, if not supra-? Is it solitude? Is that enough? Enough! I’ve had enough. Click. I close the window. My pupils dilate, condensing black—a heavy darkness, heart quiver, cold hands, eyes shut.