Archive of Tongues An Intimate History of Brownness
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Archive of Tongues An Intimate History of Brownness

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Full Title

Archive of Tongues An Intimate History of Brownness
Author(s)

Moon Charania
Edition
ISBN

9781478024101, 9781478019473, 9781478016830
Publisher

Duke University Press Books
Format

PDF and EPUB

Description

In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. 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. 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. 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 interrogations and the consequences of closing the archive of the brown mother.

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