Decolonial daughter : letters from a black woman to her European son / Lesley-Ann Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, Lesley-Ann, 1950- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postcolonialism.

Decolonization.

Mothers and sons--Denmark.

Mothers and sons.

African American mothers.

postcolonialism.

Denmark.

Physical Description:

256 pages ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Repeater, 2018.

Summary:

"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."--Amazon.com

Contents:

Introduction

In the beginning

Diary of a world citizen

Stories are life

When terrorism has a white face

What whispers the water?

Brooklyn is war

Cunt-tree: the map of liberation

The forgotten fathers

The mothers of memory: the violence of silence (A search for womanhood, a search for truth)

The conquest of Kairi: what we lost in empire (A re-imagining of the history of Trinidad and Tobago)

The lament of Lanzarote

The birth of a mother

Denmark's real national treasures

On Baldwin

The road to Hossein

The lion learns to write: a visit to my brother in jail

Radical healing plants

Conclusion

Notes

Acknowledgement.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781912248094

1912248093

OCLC:

1001743601

Publisher Number:

90102831642