Oem (tier ton co) Means Oe Care nT nd Principe, she wos born in ishon, Brno ian Ise) blishing her literary cain ered stories of COCO RMN OAM MO ONO losophy from Frete Universiti in Berlin and is currently lectu fing there on “Frantz Fanon - Black Skin, White Masks rate a 25 is a compilation of episodes exploring everyday racism as a psychologi- cal reality. The combination of these two words, ‘plantation’ and ‘memories,’ describes racism as not only the restaging of a colonial past, but also as a traumatic realily. Everyday racism, argues Grada Kilomba, is experienced as a violent shock that suddenly places the Black subject within a colonial scene where, as in a plantation scenario, one is imprisoned as the subordinate and exotic ‘Other.’ “What a beautiful N.! Look how nice the N. looks. | want to be one too!” says a girl to Kathleen. Ka- ECU CO RU a CC RO EAT CCAM LAM TESTO Ca prise and pain describes everyday racism as a mise-en-scéne where whites suddenly become symbolic masters and Blacks, through insult and humiliation, become figurative slaves. Unexpectedly, the past comes to coincide with the present and the present is experienced as if one were in that agonizing FOROS MTORR On ON Es Linking postcolonial theory, psychoanalysis, lyrical and poetic narrative, Kilomba provides a new and inspiring interpretation of everyday racism in the form of short stories. From the question “Where do you come from?” to the N-Word to hair politics, the book is essential for anyone interested in Black ‘culture, African studies, postcolonial studies, critical whiteness, gender and psychoanalysis. TREE MCT ina Oy at Ca re CCUM USER Oe 783897714854PLANTATION MEMORIES EPISODES OF EVERYDAY RACISM GRADA KILOMBA 2nd EDITION UNRAST