Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness Charania Moon
Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness Charania Moon In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her…
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Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness Charania Moon
In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. By presenting a mode of storytelling that is sensual and melancholic, piercing and sharp, Charania recovers otherwise silenced modes of brown mothers' survival, disobedience, and meaning making that are often only lived out in invisible, intimate spaces, and too often disappear into them. Drawing on her mother's memories and stories of migration, violence, sexuality, queerness, domesticity, and the intimate economies of everyday life, Charania conceptualizes her mother's tongue as an object of theory and an archive of brown intimate life.
In narrating her mother's tongue as both metaphor for and material reservoir of other ways of knowing, Charania gestures to the afflictions, limits, and failures of feminist, queer, and postcolonial scholarly
The Archive of the Forgotten
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History of Romania
History of Toys
History of Solitude
Prisoners Of History
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