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RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
A Botanical of Grief writes connection to our Ancestors, delving into and relating their reinvent... more A Botanical of Grief writes connection to our Ancestors, delving into and relating their reinvented and white-coded experiences and spaces that they occupied. Through a poetic triptych, as protocol for talking to the dead, we reach to the need for irreducible narratives, to be accessed by descendants in defining themselves. We represent what we hear in the spaces between, silences that speak volumes and call for us to take heed. We ask, what is grief in the afterlife of enslavement? We explore deep grief and fear as fruit and seed, realms in which The Bahamas, The Caribbean countries, and their Diasporas remain moored. Our writing makes explicit the tensions inherent in deep grief, denied public mourning, and fear of connection, reverberating throughout diaspora, unresting in the blood and bones of those that went before us. We are represented only in select details of the history of this land. The weighted sorrow of the forgotten seeks to make new worlds. This exploration navigates...
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
Charlotte Henay has used a combination of verse and prose to describe the inclusion of memories t... more Charlotte Henay has used a combination of verse and prose to describe the inclusion of memories that are not included in the history book, a collaborative memory that recalls what is said and left unsaid making the “unseen, visible” , telling our own stories, bringing black and indigenous women’s voices to the forefront.
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
RACAR : Revue d'art canadienne
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
A Botanical of Grief writes connection to our Ancestors, delving into and relating their reinvent... more A Botanical of Grief writes connection to our Ancestors, delving into and relating their reinvented and white-coded experiences and spaces that they occupied. Through a poetic triptych, as protocol for talking to the dead, we reach to the need for irreducible narratives, to be accessed by descendants in defining themselves. We represent what we hear in the spaces between, silences that speak volumes and call for us to take heed. We ask, what is grief in the afterlife of enslavement? We explore deep grief and fear as fruit and seed, realms in which The Bahamas, The Caribbean countries, and their Diasporas remain moored. Our writing makes explicit the tensions inherent in deep grief, denied public mourning, and fear of connection, reverberating throughout diaspora, unresting in the blood and bones of those that went before us. We are represented only in select details of the history of this land. The weighted sorrow of the forgotten seeks to make new worlds. This exploration navigates...
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry
Charlotte Henay has used a combination of verse and prose to describe the inclusion of memories t... more Charlotte Henay has used a combination of verse and prose to describe the inclusion of memories that are not included in the history book, a collaborative memory that recalls what is said and left unsaid making the “unseen, visible” , telling our own stories, bringing black and indigenous women’s voices to the forefront.
Cultural and Pedagogical Inquiry