Grandma's Story - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Spiral House EditionsISBN-13:9781068591808ISBN-10:1068591803UPC:9781068591808Book Category:Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Radio, StorytellingBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:6.29 x 4.80 x 0.29 inchesWeight:0.1411Product ID:SCPK17SFCY
The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on - not only the stories but transmission itself: "what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed."
In contrast to the idea that a story is "just a story," pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha recodes ideas about truth and fantasy to tell a different story about power, civilization, history, medicine and magic. Grandma's Story shows how creative speech is connected to women's powers of enchantment, drawing upon and speaking with storytellers including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko and Zora Neale Hurston - all who may be known as "she who breaks open the spell."
In contrast to the idea that a story is "just a story," pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha recodes ideas about truth and fantasy to tell a different story about power, civilization, history, medicine and magic. Grandma's Story shows how creative speech is connected to women's powers of enchantment, drawing upon and speaking with storytellers including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko and Zora Neale Hurston - all who may be known as "she who breaks open the spell."
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Spiral House EditionsISBN-13:9781068591808ISBN-10:1068591803UPC:9781068591808Book Category:Social Science, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Feminism & Feminist Theory, Radio, StorytellingBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:6.29 x 4.80 x 0.29 inchesWeight:0.1411Product ID:SCPK17SFCY
Minh-Ha, Trinh T.: - Trinh T. Minh-ha is a filmmaker, writer, composer and Distinguished Professor of the Graduate School in the departments of Rhetoric and of Gender & Women's Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has received many awards, including the New: Vision Award at CPH: DOX Film Festival in Copenhagen, 2022; the Wild Dreamer Lifetime Achievement Award at the Subversive Festival, Zagreb, Croatia, 2014; the Lifetime Achievement Award from Women's Caucus for Art, 2012; and the 2006 Trailblazers Award at MIPDoc (International Documentary Film Event) in Cannes, France.
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