RT Journal Article
T1 Decolonizing African and African Diasporan Cultural Memory in Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Works
A1 Cuder Domínguez, María Pilar
AB This article proposes to look back onto the Black Canadian works produced around the turn of the twenty-first century to establish some of the decolonial practices they promoted, arguing that they remain pivotal in decentering the colonial gaze that to this day is at the root of anti-Black hatred. In the face of continued structural violence and anti-Black racism preeminent across Canada to date, it attempts to unpack the purpose and means deployed in their early texts by two pioneer Black Canadian women writers, Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip, to decolonize African cultural memory from the diaspora by teaching us to value African legacies outside of Eurocentric standards. Drawing from feminist anthropologist Rita Segato, it contends that these texts perform a “counter-pedagogy of cruelty,” that is, an act of resistance to all those sociocultural practices by which people are taught, trained, and hardened to the ongoing commodification of others. 
PB The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry
SN 2052-2614
SN 2052-2622 (electrónico)
YR 2023
FD 2023
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22928
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10272/22928
LA eng
NO Cuder-Domínguez, P. (2023). Decolonizing African and African Diasporan Cultural Memory in Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip’s Works. In The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry (Vol. 10, Issue 3, pp. 332–352). Cambridge University Press (CUP). https://doi.org/10.1017/pli.2023.24
NO Funding for open access charge:Universidad de Huelva. The author also gratefully acknowledges the support of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University (Canada), where she has been virtual visiting fellow during the writing of this article.
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 28 may 2026