In Search of a New Cognitive Schema: Unsettling Colonial Epistemologies in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return
In this paper, I argue that Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging“ unsettles the epistemic foundations of the (Post-)Colonial Anthropocene, which prioritize linearity, binarity, and purported objectivity. Dominant contemporary epistemologies, as Sylvia Wynter has demonst...
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In this paper, I argue that Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging“ unsettles the epistemic foundations of the (Post-)Colonial Anthropocene, which prioritize linearity, binarity, and purported objectivity. Dominant contemporary epistemologies, as Sylvia Wynter has demonstrated, race and gender legitimate knowledge production as the preserve of Man, to the exclusion of human and non-human others. Instead, writing towards the multipolarity and -modality of the Door of No Return, Brand posits and practices, through both form and content, an anti-colonial epistemology, in which temporality and spatiality are recursive and knowledge is embodied and pluriversal.
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| spelling | doaj-art-39760fc1bb304081b04ccd9cc9f43ed32024-11-14T19:51:23ZengRegensburg: Current objectives in postgraduate American studies c/o Universität Regensburg/Institut für Anglistik und AmerikanistikCurrent Objectives of Postgraduate American Studies1861-61272021-06-0122110.5283/copas.341In Search of a New Cognitive Schema: Unsettling Colonial Epistemologies in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No ReturnDeborah Pomeranz In this paper, I argue that Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging“ unsettles the epistemic foundations of the (Post-)Colonial Anthropocene, which prioritize linearity, binarity, and purported objectivity. Dominant contemporary epistemologies, as Sylvia Wynter has demonstrated, race and gender legitimate knowledge production as the preserve of Man, to the exclusion of human and non-human others. Instead, writing towards the multipolarity and -modality of the Door of No Return, Brand posits and practices, through both form and content, an anti-colonial epistemology, in which temporality and spatiality are recursive and knowledge is embodied and pluriversal. https://copas.uni-regensburg.de/index.php/copas/article/view/341Dionne BrandepistemologyPostcolonial StudiesBlack Diaspora Studies |
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| title | In Search of a New Cognitive Schema: Unsettling Colonial Epistemologies in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return |
| title_full | In Search of a New Cognitive Schema: Unsettling Colonial Epistemologies in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return |
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| title_short | In Search of a New Cognitive Schema: Unsettling Colonial Epistemologies in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return |
| title_sort | in search of a new cognitive schema unsettling colonial epistemologies in dionne brand s a map to the door of no return |
| topic | Dionne Brand epistemology Postcolonial Studies Black Diaspora Studies |
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