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 that 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.
Bon état
151 pages
ISBN : 978-3897714854
Au coeur de l'Amérique, deux petites filles noires s'inventent une autre vie, plus riche, plus drôle, plus libre surtout de la dure réalité qui les entoure. L'âge venant, Sula la rebelle part rouler sa bosse dans les grandes villes alors que Nel, la sage, accomplit sa vocation de mère et d'épouse. Quarante ans après, elles font leurs comptes, s'opposent et incarnent chacune à sa manière la farouche énergie de la femme noire face aux hommes si vulnérables.
Traduit de l’anglais par Pierre Alien
Bon état
188 pages
ISBN : 9782264018229
This book is a political memoir. Grace Ibingira was a young lawyer in Kampala just before Uganda became independent of British colonial control, and he became a leading figure in the Uganda Peoples' Congress formed by Milton Obote in 1960. For both reasons, he played a major role at the two conferences in London which determined the constitutional mode in which his country acquired independence.
The sections of the memoir dealing with these conferences form a primary source which future historians of Uganda will neglect at their peril. There are also some interesting comments upon electoral campaigning.
Otherwise, the book relies heavily for information upon a handful of standard secondary studies of Ugandan history by other writers, which presumably indicates the kind of reader the author hopes to reach: people with little leisure but ten dollars to spare.
MICHAEL TWADDLE
Université de Londres
État satisfaisant
332 pages
ISBN : 978-0670323692
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Likoli est une librairie de seconde main en ligne, doublée d'un espace éditorial, consacrée aux savoirs afro-diasporiques et aux traditions de pensée marxistes.
Les textes, les images et les voix auxquels on donne une place façonnent aussi notre manière d'imaginer le monde.
Faire circuler les textes qu'on a mis de côté, c'est rappeler que le monde tel qu'il est n'a rien d'évident. Qu'il aurait pu être autre chose. Et qu'il peut encore le devenir.
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