WRITING IN PRACTICE VOL 10

FULL TITLE

'The people wore no armour, or none that I recognized': How perspective contributes to the exploration of dis/embodiment in Ta-Nahisi Coates's Between the World and Me

ABSTRACT

Considering the work of two recent works of life writing, Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me (2015) and Amy Key’s, Arrangements in Blue: Notes on Love and Making a Life (2023), this text considers the strengths and pitfalls of working from a place of acknowledged subjectivity. Linked to this is recognition of the fact that the writers often employ an embodied perspective, or conversely, a point of view that questions the narrator’s connection to their body. In very different ways, this expresses profound feelings of isolation from the world.

KEYWORDS

memoir, life writing, embodiment, epistolary, perspective, first person, subjectivity

HOW TO CITE THIS ARTICLE

Corry, Amie (2024) 'The people wore no armour, or none that I recognized': How perspective contributes to the exploration of dis/embodiment in Ta-Nahisi Coates's Between the World and Me, Writing in Practice. 10. 125-131. DOI: 10.62959/WIP-10-2024-10