Esther Lezra Esther Lezra
Biographic Data
| ID | 9029044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Lezra Esther Lezra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther Lezra Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Lezra |
| SIGNATURE | LEZRA E L E |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 2 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Poetics of Place and Expressions of Oppositional Memory
The Black Atlantic creation of alternative archives illustrated in Parisa Urquhart’s 2019 documentary Strike for Freedom, which chronicles the unveiling of a historical plaque in Edinburgh to commemorate Frederick Douglass’s activism while he was in exile in Scotland, has a long and meaningful history. People without control over—or even access to—papers of state, conquerors’ memoirs, or officially commissioned histories have carried out the work…
Monuments to the Impossible
What tools do cultural interventions offer us to face and speak back to the horrors of a colonial archive that continues to grow and expand in its mechanisms of dehumanizing and silencing the populations it targets? How do we respond to a horizon of reality that seems surreal? What weapons do we have left to fight or speak back when we know that the walking and living archive—officers, policymakers, schoolteachers, corporate investors, and the pe…
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The Poetics of Place and Expressions of Oppositional Memory
The Black Atlantic creation of alternative archives illustrated in Parisa Urquhart’s 2019 documentary Strike for Freedom, which chronicles the unveiling of a historical plaque in Edinburgh to commemorate Frederick Douglass’s activism while he was in exile in Scotland, has a long and meaningful history. People without control over—or even access to—papers of state, conquerors’ memoirs, or officially commissioned histories have carried out the work…
Monuments to the Impossible
What tools do cultural interventions offer us to face and speak back to the horrors of a colonial archive that continues to grow and expand in its mechanisms of dehumanizing and silencing the populations it targets? How do we respond to a horizon of reality that seems surreal? What weapons do we have left to fight or speak back when we know that the walking and living archive—officers, policymakers, schoolteachers, corporate investors, and the pe…
Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 work) · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture (1 work) · Art history (1 work) · Assertion (1 work) · Beauty (1 work) · Colonialism (1 work) · Computer Science (1 work)