Bhanu Kapil écrit de la poésie et de la prose qui explorent les limites du corps, de l'identité et du récit. Son travail se caractérise par un style expérimental et un engagement profond envers des thèmes tels que le traumatisme, la migration et l'appartenance culturelle. Kapil recherche souvent l'innovation formelle, mêlant différents genres et voix narratives pour créer des expériences de lecture uniques et captivantes. Sa prose est souvent lyrique et introspective, explorant les paysages intérieurs et les complexités de l'expérience humaine.
Originally published in America in 2006, Incubation: a space for monsters is a formally innovative, hybrid-genre book that incorporates poetry and prose. Set in a shifting narrative environment, where human bodies, characters, and text are neither one thing nor another, this fragmentary-diaristic text journeys through the spaces in-between.
A fragmented notebook investigates mental illness and trauma in the South Asian diaspora
Always at the centre of her books and performances are the experiences of the body, and, whether she is exploring racism, violence, the experiences of diaspora communities in India, England or America, what emerges is a heart- stopping, life-affirming way of telling the near impossible-to-be-told.
An evocative exploration of body and politics by one of our most exciting innovative writers. Bhanu Kapil's Ban en Banlieue follows a brown (black) girl as she walks home from school in the first moments of a riot. An April night in London, in 1979, is the axis of this startling work of overlapping arcs and varying approaches. By the end of the night, Ban moves into an incarnate and untethered presence, becoming all matter-- soot, meat, diesel oil and force--as she loops the city with the energy of global weather. Derived from performances in India, England and throughout the U.S., Ban en Banlieue is written at the limit of somatic and civic aims.