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Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son

By Lesley-Ann Brown

Book information

Publisher
Watkins Media
Year
2018
ISBN
9781912248100, 9781912248094
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
379 kB (387854 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-09-30 01:28:01
NonfictionSOC001000SOC007000SOC031000Sociology

Description

A Trinidadian-American writer and activist explores motherhood, migration, identity, nationhood and how it relates to land, imprisonment, and genocide for Black and Indigenous peoples. Having moved to Copenhagen, Denmark from Brooklyn over 18 years ago, Brown attempts to contextualise her and her son's existence in a post-colonial and supposedly post-racial world where the very machine of so-called progress has been premised upon the demise of her lineage. Through these letters, Brown writes the past into the present - penned from the country that has been declared "The Happiest Place in the World" - creating a vision that is a necessary alternative to the dystopian one currently being bought and sold.

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