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.
- ISBN10 1937658031
- ISBN13 9781937658038
- Publish Date 21 June 2012
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Nightboat Books
- Format Paperback
- Pages 220
- Language English