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Seminar
WiSe 20/21: (GEND) Gqola, Hartman and Wynter – A South African – Afro-American -and Afro Caribbean Conversation on the Atlantic Slave Trade and its Meaning for the Present
Sara Dehkordi
Comments
In What is Slavery to Me? Pumla Dineo Gqola opens up a deep discussion about slave memory and its meaning for postapartheid modes of erasure and acknowledgement. Through a long-term archival work, Saidiya Hartman revives silenced narratives of enslaved women in the United States. Sylvia Wynter unsettles the Coloniality of Being/Power/Truth/Freedom and continues the conversation about the ways in which Western knowledge production has dominated all modes of reasoning and history writing in On How We Mistook the Map for the Territory and Re-Imprisoned Ourselves in Our Unbearable Wrongness. All three woman unearth perspectives towards slavery that seem to be more than uncomfortable for dominant discourses of slavery in the Global North. If we understand their writings as interventions, how can we embrace their discussions and think them further within our own fixed notions of whose stories matter and whose don’t? This seminar is an epistemological experiment in which we will attempt to establish the links between present-day development and peace intervention policies initiated in the so-called first world, and marginalized histories of colonial oppression and resistance. close
15 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Wed, 2020-11-04 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-11-11 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-11-18 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-11-25 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-12-02 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-12-09 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2020-12-16 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-01-06 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-01-13 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-01-20 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-01-27 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-02-03 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-02-10 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-02-17 12:00 - 14:00
Wed, 2021-02-24 12:00 - 14:00