Plantation Memories
Episodes of Everyday Racism
by Grada Kilomba
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Pub Date May 01 2021 | Archive Date May 01 2021
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Description
Plantation Memories is a compilation of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories. From the question “Where do you come from?” to Hair Politics to the N-word, the book is a strong, eloquent, and elaborate piece, which deconstructs the normality of everyday racism and exposes the violence of being placed as the Other.
Released at the Berlin International Literature Festival in 2008, soon the book became internationally acclaimed and part of numerous academic curricula. Known for her subversive practice of giving body, voice, and image to her own texts, Grada Kilomba has adapted her book into a staged reading and video installation. Plantation Memories is an important contribution to the global cultural discourse.
Advance Praise
“A remarkably insightful and compelling book about the being and becoming of Blackness. Once I began reading it, I couldn’t stop. Written in the spirit and tradition of bell hooks and Frantz Fanon, it is one of the most important books written on the sociology, phenomenology, and psychology of racism and colonialism since Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks.”
– David Austin, author of Fear of a Black Nation and Dread Poetry and Freedom
“A rigorous and highly intimate exploration of the ways that the unfinished legacies of slavery, colonialism, and Europe’s African genocide remain sutured into the everyday lives of Black women. Kilomba’s work demonstrates the psychological and political urgency of ongoing anti-colonial struggle in a time of enduring calamity.”
– Robyn Maynard, author of Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781771135504 |
| PRICE | CA$23.95 (CAD) |
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