Archives as Decolonial Love in This Wound is a World
<p>Billy Ray-Belcourt’s <em>This Wound is a World</em> serves as “an archive of memory” of an Indigiqueer speaker, who strives to find love and acceptance in a world where such love is denied and obstructed to one with an Indigiqueer identity (Whitehead). However, by writing and keeping an “archive” of his memory, the speaker goes through a spiritual process of healing the wounds he received from the world. Belcourt’s poems each describe a wound inflicted by physical and verbal violence of “heteropatriarchy and heteronormativity… logics of colonialism” (Finley 12). Ironically, these series of wounds create another world in the speaker’s mind, in the form of memory, where the victim exerts his own agency through writing — creating a space where the oppressed can speak and fight back against his oppressors. Therefore, instead of forgetting and erasing but by archiving and remembering, the speaker makes sense of his pain imposed by this post-colonial world, </p>
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