Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock's I'm Jack

In this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock's 2015 novel, I'm Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term "metadata." This article schematizes the way...

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Published inCritique - Bolingbroke Society Vol. 60; no. 3; pp. 330 - 341
Main Author Eve, Martin Paul
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Routledge 27.05.2019
Taylor & Francis Inc
Subjects
Blacklock, Mark
close reading
contemporary fiction
Contemporary literature
Contextualism
erasure poetry
History
I'm Jack
Literary criticism
Literary devices
literary studies
Mark Blacklock
Metadata
Metaphor
Novels
Poetry
redaction
symptomatic reading
Wearside Jack
Writers
Yorkshire Ripper
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Summary:In this article, through a reading of Mark Blacklock's 2015 novel, I'm Jack, alongside the history of erasure poetry, I suggest that an apt literary-critical metaphor for reading redaction in contemporary literature comes from the term "metadata." This article schematizes the ways in which redaction can work in literary contexts and points to the modalities through which supposedly blank surfaces are, in fact, textured depths that can be read.
ISSN:0011-1619
1939-9138
DOI:10.1080/00111619.2019.1568960