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{"title":"Prodigious Presence: After the Door of No Return","authors":"Warren E. Crichlow","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0041","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Recomposing bright shimmers of autobiographical memory, this essay ruminates on the author’s reencounter with Dionne Brand’s resplendent cartographic poetic, A Map to the Door of No Return, on the occasion of its 20th anniversary, 20 years into the 21st century.RÉSUMÉ:Réagençant de vifs éclats de mémoire autobiographique, ce texte jongle sur les retrouvailles de l’auteur avec la resplendissante poésie cartographique de Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return, à l’occasion de son vingtième anniversaire, vingt ans après le début du XXIe siècle.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"43 1","pages":"79 - 83"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90560615","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"No Theories for the Liquidity of This Desire","authors":"Amber Rose Johnson","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0032","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:No Theories for the Liquidity of This Desire is a visual and poetic meditation on desire as an embodied practice of cartography. The short film responds to and reflects (on) Dionne Brand’s liquid theories of self-creation and way-finding as a Black being in diaspora. A collection of still frames accompanies the transcription of the original work, which can be accessed in full at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdymeQxPYs&t=183s. No Theories was shot in Anguilla during February 2021.RÉSUMÉ:No Theories for the Liquidity of This Desire est une méditation visuelle et poétique sur le désir en tant que pratique incarnée, corporelle de la cartographie. Le court métrage réagit et réfléchit aux théories fluides de Dionne Brand sur la création de soi et le processus d’orientation d’une personne noire de la diaspora. Une série d’images fixes accompagne la transcription de l’œuvre originale, accessible dans son intégralité à l’adresse suivante : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fdymeQxPYs&t=183s. No Theories a été tourné à Anguilla en février 2021.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"5 1","pages":"174 - 182"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91242571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Divine Queer Sorrow, or Beyond Mythical Reparations","authors":"I. L. Tian","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0007","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article focuses on the culture and politics of apology for injustice against LGBTQ+ people in the context of Anglo-European, liberal democratic nationstates. I examine the circumstances and limits of Justin Trudeau’s apology for the gay purge and related initiatives since November 2017. I contend that while the normative affective structure of liberal apology mandates a move from mythical homo sorrow to mythical reparation, jettisoned affects, experiences and activism from below exceed the state’s directive for reparation and forgetting. I name such excesses divine queer sorrow. More specifically, I trace the remaindered and peripheral affect of testimonies and activism to think about not only a queer affective structure of forgiveness but also a transformative future stemming from activist sensibilities.RÉSUMÉ:Cet article porte sur la culture et la politique des excuses pour les injustices commises contre les personnes LGBTQ+ dans les États-nations démocratiques et libéraux de culture anglo-européenne. J’examine les circonstances et les limites des excuses présentées par Justin Trudeau depuis novembre 2017 au sujet de la purge des personnes LGBTQ+ dans la fonction publique et des politiques connexes. Je soutiens que si la structure affective normative des excuses libérales impose le passage du mythique chagrin homo à la mythique réparation, les affects, les expériences et l’activisme rejetés par la base vont au-delà de la directive de l’État concernant la réparation et l’oubli. J’appelle ces excès le « divin chagrin queer ». Plus précisément, je trace les contours de l’affect bradé et périphérique des témoignages et de l’activisme pour réfléchir non seulement à une structure affective queer du pardon, mais aussi à un avenir transformateur découlant des sensibilités militantes.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"113 1","pages":"260 - 279"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82477883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Blue Dreams, Black Sleep","authors":"Marcelle-Anne Fletcher","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0060","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0060","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Dionne Brand’s meditative and narrative rule-breaking book, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, reveals the ways in which the incredible effortfulness of living, dreaming and sleeping is not only proof of a shared condition of Blackness but also of an antiblack world. Sleep (or a lack thereof) indexes scales of and relations to antiblackness. In this paper, I consider the mirrored boundaries between wakefulness/sleep and life/death, probing their psycho-existential and ontological infrastructures. I argue that these states of being are tethered, however tenuously, to each other and in doing so, clarify the stakes of the ostensibly quotidian and mundane. By analyzing insomnia, slumber, fever dreams and nightmares, the text reveals the literal and metaphorical coordinates that locate the bounds of Black consciousness and freedom. Black sleep becomes a kind of freedom, insofar as it offers reprieve that is only possible when the dreamwork is forgotten or psychically registered as nothing at all.RÉSUMÉ:Le livre méditatif et narratif hors norme de Dionne Brand, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, montre que l’incroyable difficulté de vivre, de rêver et de dormir est non seulement la preuve d’une condition commune aux personnes noires, mais aussi de l’existence d’un monde raciste envers les personnes noires. Le sommeil (ou son absence) est un indicateur du degré de racisme contre les Noir·es et des relations avec lui. Dans cet article, j’examine les frontières en miroir entre l’éveil et le sommeil et entre la vie et la mort, en sondant leurs infrastructures psychoexistentielles et ontologiques. Je soutiens qu’il existe un lien, aussi ténu soit-il, entre ces états d’être et, ce faisant, je clarifie les enjeux de ce qui est en apparence quotidien et banal. En analysant l’insomnie, le sommeil, les rêves de fièvre et les cauchemars, le texte révèle les coordonnées littérales et métaphoriques qui situent les limites de la conscience et de la liberté des Noir.es. Le sommeil noir devient une sorte de liberté, dans la mesure où il offre un répit qui n’est possible que lorsque le travail du rêve est oublié ou enregistré psychiquement comme rien du tout.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"33 1","pages":"31 - 44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85728380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Entropic Monuments","authors":"Mabel O. Wilson","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0043","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0043","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:To join Dionne Brand in A Map to the Door of No Return is to take a journey divergent from the West’s well-worn genre of the epic that fetes great white men whose great risks meet with even greater rewards. By contrast, Brand sutures her transatlantic bricolage of time and space with disruptions and displacements. Her redactions and erasures illuminate the efficacy of forgetting in a world where the colonizers have frozen the historical time of Empire in marble, granite, and bronze.RÉSUMÉ:Rejoindre Dionne Brand dans A Map to the Door of No Return, c’est entreprendre un voyage qui s’écarte du genre bien rôdé de l’Occident, l’épopée qui célèbre les grands hommes blancs.de l’épopée, genre bien connu de l’Occident, qui fait l’éloge des grands hommes blancsdont les grands risques sont encore mieux récompensés. En revanche, Brand suture sontransatlantique du temps et de l’espace avec des perturbations et des déplacements. SesSes caviardages et ses effacements mettent en lumière l’efficacité de l’oubli dans un monde où les colonisateurs ont figé le temps historique.colonisateurs ont figé le temps historique de l’Empire dans le marbre, le granit et le bronze.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"20 1","pages":"238 - 242"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74739607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Sitting in Narrative: Second-Person Narration in Dionne Brand’s Map","authors":"E. Greenwood","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0036","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Returning to Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return (2001) in light of its scholarly reception and Brand’s subsequent works, this article focuses on narration as a form of post-colonial redress with particular attention to Brand’s use of second-person narration as a device of counter-estrangement. Taking a cue from Brian Richardson’s description of the second person as an “unnatural” register of narration, it explores Brand’s use of the second person as a voice of commingled alterity that has strong ethical implications for readers. With Brand’s analysis of “what sits in narrative” in An Autobiography of an Autobiography of Reading (2020) as a hermeneutic, the article demonstrates how, by blurring the gap between narratee and reader, Brand puts the reader “in the room with history.”RÉSUMÉ:Revenant sur A Map to the Door of No Return (2001) de Dionne Brand à la lumière de sa réception savante et des œuvres ultérieures de l’auteure, cet article s’intéresse à la narration comme forme de réparation postcoloniale. Il accorde pour ce faire une attention particulière à l’emploi de la narration à la deuxième personne, comprise comme un dispositif de contre-éloignement. Suivant Brian Richardson, qui considère la deuxième personne comme un registre de narration « peu naturel », l’article considère en effet que l’usage de la deuxième personne donne voix chez Brand à une altérité amalgamée qui a de lourdes conséquences éthiques pour la personne qui lit. En se référant à l’herméneutique déployée par Brand dans son analyse de « ce qui se trouve dans la narration », dans An Autobiography of an Autobiography of Reading (2020), l’article montre que l’auteure, en brouillant le fossé entre narrataire et lecteur ou lectrice, place ceux-ci « dans la pièce avec l’histoire ».","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"151 1","pages":"100 - 84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81322937","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Longing Across the Black Diaspora: Love, Being and the Door of No Return","authors":"Rinaldo Walcott","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0035","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0035","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this paper I argue that in Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand is an ethnographer of Black interiority and gives us a poetics of Black psychoanalysis rejoining our slaveness to a less alienated geo-environmental social. I argue that we might read Brand alongside Saidiya Hartman and Paule Marshall as writers coming to terms with Black being as one consecrated in disruption and producing a “tribe of the Middle Passage.” I further suggest that they do so without a demand for a common unity beyond the logic of survival, and without a demand for an official or proper name.RÉSUMÉ:Dans cet article, je soutiens que Dionne Brand, dans Map to the Door of No Return, se fait ethnographe de l’intériorité noire et qu’elle propose une poétique de la psychanalyse noire reliant notre esclavage à un contexte social géo-environnemental moins aliéné. Je soutiens que nous pourrions lire Brand aux côtés de Saidiya Hart-man et de Paule Marshall en tant qu’écrivaines qui composent avec l’être noir consacré en perturbation, et qui constituent une « tribu du passage intermédiaire ». Je suggère en outre qu’elles font cela sans exiger d’unité commune au-delà de la logique de la survie, et sans exiger de nom officiel ou de nom propre.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"23 1","pages":"13 - 7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89939042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Page 46, Line 2 from Below","authors":"Belinda Kazeem-Kaminński","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0046","url":null,"abstract":"Page 46, Line 2 from Below” presents itself as a part of an ongoing African Diasporan world, map and route making. A summoning of navigational instructions along the way. In this text, the navigational directions laid out in Dionne Brand’s seminal A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001) provide the space for the retelling of an unexpected encounter with name, place and memory. And while moving through the ebbs and flows of various time-spaces—Toronto, Mannheim, Elmina and Traiskirchen, a town close to the Austrian capital Vienna—memories of police violence and Black death, of resistance and imagining and ultimately of belonging wash up on its shores.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"27 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82277251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Splinters and Fragments: Looking into a Map, Finding Wonder","authors":"Bedour Alagraa","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0050","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:In this reflection, I offer some thoughts on my introduction to Dionne Brand’s Map to the Door of No Return, and invite the reader to consider the text as a guide for an archipelagic reading practice, offering signposts for reading other works of poetry from the Caribbean in particular, and threading these pieces together in a manner that is ‘symphonic.’ In this symphonic arrangement, I offer examples of the texts that MTTDNR taught me to read—including Derek Walcott, Sylvia Wynter, Kamau Brathwaite, and others—and underscore the call and response between MTTDNR and these texts. Ultimately, Brand’s work has allowed my own participation in this call and response due to its role as the connective tissue in my own reading practice.RÉSUMÉ:Je propose ici quelques-unes des réflexions qu’a suscitées chez moi la découverte de l’œuvre de Dionne Brand Map to the Door of No Return. J’invite la lectrice et le lecteur à considérer ce texte comme un guide pour une pratique archipélagique de la lecture. Il offre en effet des balises à la lecture d’autres ouvrages de poésie provenant des Caraïbes, en particulier, et tisse ces œuvres entre elles à la manière d’une symphonie. Dans cet arrangement symphonique, à partir d’exemples de textes que Map to the Door of No Return m’a appris à lire – y compris ceux de Derek Walcott, de Sylvia Wynter, de Kamau Brathwaite et d’autres –, je mets en évidence le mouvement d’appel et de réponse entre l’œuvre de Brand et ceux-ci. En définitive, Map to the Door of No Return a favorisé ma propre participation à ce mouvement, en jouant dans ma pratique de lecture le rôle de tissu conjonctif.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"6 1","pages":"101 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84362738","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"(A)Drift: A Method and Theory of Black Temporality in Map","authors":"Jameelah Imani Morris","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0039","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:Taking seriously Brand’s conception that we “have no such immediate sense of belonging, only of drift” (Brand 2001, 118), this commentary meditates on Brand’s conception of “drift” as both a theory and method of Black temporality. Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001) draws us towards the uncharted/able expanse of the Door of No Return, and particularly the ways the Door overwhelms temporal senses and experiences. The Door, Brand describes, is a passport from a territory so vast that “[w]e are always in the middle of the journey” (Brand 2001, 49).Map invites us not only to consider the inadequacies of origins and nation-state boundaries. Map also theorizes the inability of normative temporal schemas to render sensible the “past’s” ongoing presence in Black life in the wake(s) of the Door and the Middle Passage of racial slavery. Mirroring Brand’s weaving of personal narrative and theory, this reflection turns to the relationship between forgetting and time, particularly in intergenerational conversations, to understand how the Door disorients normative logics of time as a dimension of Black psychic life that people share in. In doing so, this reflection sits with how Map names a temporality of the Door that is not about fantastical change or transformation, but about continuous arrivals to the experience of a suspension that one never quite leaves.RÉSUMÉ:Prenant au sérieux la conception de Dionne Brand selon laquelle nous « n’éprouvons pas de sentiment immédiat d’appartenance, seulement de dérive » (Brand 2001, p. 118), ce commentaire médite sur la conception de « dérive » formulée par l’auteure, à la fois théorie et méthode de la temporalité noire. A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001) de Brand nous attire vers l’étendue inexplorée ou inexplorable de la « porte sans retour », et en particulier vers le bouleversement des sensations et des expériences temporelles provoqué par la porte. La porte décrite par Brand est un passeport rattaché à un territoire si vaste que « nous sommes toujours au milieu du voyage » (Brand, 2001, p. 49).A Map to the Door of No Return ne nous invite pas seulement à considérer les insuffisances des origines et des frontières des États-nations. L’œuvre théorise également l’incapacité des schémas temporels normatifs à rendre sensible la présence continue du « passé » dans la vie des Noir·e·s, après « la porte » et « le passage intermédiaire » de l’esclavage racial. Empruntant à Brand son entrelacement du récit personnel et de la théorie, ma réflexion se tourne vers la relation entre l’oubli et le temps, en particulier dans les conversations intergénérationnelles, afin de comprendre comment la Porte, en désorientant les logiques normatives du temps, devient une dimension commune de la vie psychique noire. Ce faisant, elle adhère à la manière dont l’œuvre de Brand nomme une temporalité de « la porte » qui réfère non pas à un changement ou à une transformation fan","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"54 1","pages":"195 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85632715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}