Plantation memories – episodes of everyday racism

Plantation memories – episodes of everyday racism is a compilation of daily episodes of racism, written in the format of small psychoanalytic stories. From the politics of space and exclusion, to the politics of body and hair, addressing racial slurs, Grada Kilomba deconstructs, incisively, the normality of racism, exposing the violence and trauma of being made the Other. Originally published in English, in 2008, Memórias da Plantação became an important contribution for the international academic discourse. An interdisciplinary work, which mixes postcolonial theory, whiteness studies, psychoanalysis, gender studies, black feminism and poetic narrative, this is an essential reflection and also innovative for decolonial practices.

“Colonialism is a wound that has never been properly treated, an infected wound, that always hurts, and sometimes bleeds”

About the artist
Grada Kilomba is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and theorist, with roots in Angola and São Tomé and Príncipe, born in Lisbon, where she studied psychology and psychoanalysis. In the wake of Frantz Fanon and bell hooks, the author reflects about memory, race, gender, postcolonialism, and her work embraces performance, acting, physical installations and video. Kilomba intentionally creates a hybrid space between the academic and artistic languages, giving voice, body and image to her own texts. Her works were presented at the 32nd São Paulo Bienal, the 10th Berlin Bienal, the Documenta 14, the Foundation Calouste Gulbenkian and the São Paulo Pinacoteca, among other spaces. She lives in Berlin, where she got a PhD in philosophy at the Freie Universität and was a professor at the Gender Department at the Humboldt Universität.

Specifications
Title Memórias da Plantação – Episódios de racismo cotidiano [Plantation memories – episodes of everyday racism]
Author Grada Kilomba
Translator Jess Oliveira
Language Portuguese
Page count 248
Publisher Cobogó
ISBN 978-85-5591-080-7
Format Softcover
Size 14 x 21 cm
Year 2019
Price R$ 82,00