Reading Redaction: Symptomatic Metadata, Erasure Poetry, and Mark Blacklock's I'm Jack. Issue 3 (27th May 2019)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Eve, Martin Paul
• Is Part Of: Critique. Volume 60:Issue 3(2019)
• Page Start: 330
• Page End: 341
• Publication Date: 2019-05-27
• Subjects: Metadata -- redaction -- symptomatic reading -- erasure poetry -- Wearside Jack -- Yorkshire Ripper -- literary studies -- contemporary fiction -- close reading -- Mark Blacklock -- I'm Jack; Fiction -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Periodicals; Letterkunde; Engels; Electronic journals; 809.304
• DOI: 10.1080/00111619.2019.1568960
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0011-1619

Abstract

ABSTRACT: 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.