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{"title":"Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering","authors":"C. Sharpe","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-46-001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-46-001","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"76 1","pages":"1 - 6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79343312","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":"Map at 20: A Black Diasporic Grammar Book","authors":"Sam Tecle","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0055","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This article details the central role Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging has had in the development of not only my current book project: Black Grammars: On Difference and Belonging but the broader field of Black diasporic studies more generally. On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the text, the article revisits the text’s central provocations and its discipline-rattling engagements.RÉSUMÉ:Cet article explique le rôle central que A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging de Dionne Brand a joué dans le développement non seulement de mon projet de livre actuel, Black Grammars: On Difference and Belonging, mais aussi du domaine plus large des études sur la diaspora noire. À l’occasion du 20e anniversaire du livre de Brand, cet article revient sur les provocations centrales du texte et ses prises de position qui brouillent les frontières disciplinaires.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"53 1","pages":"125 - 133"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80005708","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":"Unraveling Colonial Cartographies: Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering","authors":"Andrea A. Davis","doi":"10.3138/topia-46-002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-46-002","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"95 1","pages":"255 - 259"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81375846","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":"Things I Knew Before I Knew","authors":"William C. Anderson","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0052","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:A reflection on Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return, originally presented at A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering.RÉSUMÉ:Ce texte est une réflexion sur A Map to the Door of No Return de Dionne Brand présentée à l’origine lors de la rencontre qui soulignait le vingtième anniversairre de l’ouvrage, « A Map to the Door of No Return at 20: A Gathering ».","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"42 1","pages":"251 - 254"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89359761","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":"“Finding My Way to Freedom”: Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging","authors":"S. Beckford","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0061","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This paper explores Dionne Brand‘s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2011) as a non-traditional archive, yet idealistically a poetic narrative map, beginning epically at the Door of No Return on the west coast of Africa and spreading out infinitely. I argue the main focus is freedom as marronage mapped out through a set of hyperlinked tension-filled stories across time and space that collectively connect geography and/to history; its method is collecting and recording “conversations” (224), both spoken and observed, about Black diasporic lives and encounters across time and space. In Map Brand’s desire for freedom leads her to interrogate and challenge selected old world maps, charts journeys, and, in narrative and poetry, re/call and re/invent the past and actively re/imagine the present and future of new world liberated Black people as self-created individuals. The result is a modern literary artifact: as memorial to the marooned, with a ruttier for freedom for the marooned. This work forms part of a neo-archive of Black Diasporic texts that collectively perform reparative story-telling. Brand maps and builds a different (non-traditional) repository by recording selected experiences of Black people in the New World Diaspora—connecting paths forged from “a place emptied of beginnings” (6). Map charts the points on a journey to a liberatory future, one based on, as Brand describes it, “a life of conversations about a forgotten list of irretrievable selves” (224)—human dignity. Brand’s Map, then, for inspiration, preserves selected histories that might have otherwise remained unexplored. It makes future retrieval possible, and the possibility of forgetting impossible—and ultimately this is the ageless beauty of this provocative work.RÉSUMÉ:Cet article considère A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging de Dionne Brand comme une archiv e non traditionnelle et, de façon idéaliste, comme une carte narrative poétique dont le début épique se situe à la Porte sans retour, sur la côte ouest de l’Afrique, et qui s’étend à l’infini. Je soutiens que la liberté y occupe le premier plan, sous la forme du marronnage cartographié à travers un ensemble d’histoires hyperliées, remplies de tension, qui se déroulent à travers le temps et l’espace et qui, collectivement, lient entre elles la géographie et l’histoire ; la méthode consiste à recueillir et à enregistrer des « conversations » (224), parlées et observées, au sujet des vies et des rencontres des personnes noires de la diaspora à travers le temps et l’espace. Dans Map, le désir de liberté de Brand l’amène à interroger et à contester certaines cartes de l’Ancien Monde, à tracer des itinéraires de voyage et, dans la narration et les poèmes, à (r)appeler et à (ré)inventer le passé et à (ré)imaginer activement le présent et l’avenir des personnes noires du Nouveau Monde libérées en tant qu’individus autocréés. Le résultat est un artéfact littéraire moderne, à la fois mémoria","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"209 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82026300","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 whole world was in her face”: Honouring places beyond maps","authors":"D. A. Trotz","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0031","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay draws on Brand’s storying of an encounter in Kalinago territory in order to think about diaspora and indigeneity simultaneously in relation to, and against histories and contemporary practices of extractivism.RÉSUMÉ:Cet essai s’appuie sur la mise en récit par Brand d’une rencontre en territoire Kalinago pour penser simultanément la diaspora et l’autochtonie dans leur relation et leur opposition aux histoires et aux pratiques contemporaines de l’extractivisme.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"56 - 65"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75609288","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":"Black Myopia","authors":"Jon Jon Moore Palacios","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0042","url":null,"abstract":"A few years ago, I had the privilege of getting a tattoo from the performance artist & sculptor Doreen Garner, also known as KING COBRA. And when I arrived in New York City for this sole reason, to get tatted by a black person who might actually show my skin on their Instagram in the end, all I had was an idea.“There’s this book,” I told her, and “there’s this line.” I tried to explain how the book comforted & terrified me, and how one line in particular would come to me at odd hours. In the line at CVS, waiting for the light to turn, waiting to turn over in bed.On page 89 of “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging,” Dionne Brand writes, “The door is not a map. The door is on my retina.”I don’t remember Doreen’s response, and I don’t remember if she’d read A Map before, but remember she took some time to think, time to sketch. I am not a visual person, and my original idea—an eye, and in the iris, a door—proved insufficient for what we needed to do together. After some time Doreen reappeared excited and proposed: “Why not put Africa there?” she asked. “Let’s put Africa in the eye.”While I didn’t think my idea was the sexiest by any means, fitting the continent into a visual space the size of a quarter sounded impossible to me. But that’s exactly what Doreen did, and maybe this is what Dionne Brand had done, too: moved the continent into the eye.As Garner gunned the ink into my chest, her decision and Brand’s words drowned out the buzz and the blistering pain.Why not show what made the door? Why not say what I really mean?","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"13 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85202522","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":"Quantum Particularity: For Audre Lorde and Dionne Brand","authors":"A. P. Gumbs","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0045","url":null,"abstract":"This essay brings together the writing of Audre Lorde and Dionne Brand and their responses to their visits, decades apart to the dungeons of Elmina. The essay proposes that Elmina Castle and the other forts used for the purposes of trading enslaved Africans can be understood as particle accelerators because of their reduction of key components of communities into individuals for sale. The word “particular” in the writing and speaking of Lorde and Brand offer us a poetics beyond individuality.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"3 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86517361","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":"Pinery Road and Concession 11","authors":"L. Simpson","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0013","url":null,"abstract":"In “Pinery Road & Concession 11”, writer, academic and musician Leanne Betasamosake Simpson reflects on the chapter of the same name in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return. By physically traveling to the same corner in rural Ontario that Brand’s car broke down two decades earlier, Simpson considers place, belonging, diaspora, property, and foreclosure in her own Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg homeland. Simpson’s companion on part of the journey is an 80 year old Black Ash Basket which she repatriates to Curve Lake First Nation on the way. What follows is the text of the piece originally presented at the Map to the Door At 20 gathering. Simpson presented the piece over looped time lapse photography of the journey and surveillance footage of the intersection of Pinery Road & Concession 11. Simpson’s sister, Ansley Simpson provided a soundscape for the piece, repurposed from Leanne’s track “Solidification” (Noopiming Sessions, Giizhiwe Music, 2021). “Pinery Road & Concession 11” is an honour song to Brand’s constellation of thought that has traveled the world, and back to the Burnt River, near Kinmount, Ontario.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"128 ","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72430067","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":"Looking Back in Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood. Research, remembrance and reclamation of a Hydro story","authors":"Isabella Huberman","doi":"10.3138/topia-2022-0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3138/topia-2022-0011","url":null,"abstract":"This essay analyses Jennifer Dysart’s 2014 documentary film Kewekapawetan: Return After the Flood, which tells the past and present-day story of the Northern Manitoba Ithinew (Cree) community South Indian Lake and its entanglement with Manitoba Hydro. Dysart documents the history of colonial hydro policy by showcasing rare archival footage from the late 1960s and reclaims this material for the community she has roots in. At the same time, she records her search to learn about her father’s life and her efforts to reconnect with family by spending time on the land. Discussion between author and filmmaker throughout the research and writing process engages “visiting” as a methodology for studying Indigenous narrative arts. Ultimately, Dysart’s visual storytelling is a critical site of knowledge-making about the dislocation caused by large-scale resource extraction that foregrounds reconnection to family, community and land.","PeriodicalId":43438,"journal":{"name":"Topia-Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies","volume":"45 1","pages":"-"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83556221","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}