Connective Tissue
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15310652 |
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| Authors | Vilashini Cooppan (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 281-306 |
| Publication date | 2019-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qui Parle (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1041-8385 • E-ISSN: 1938-8020 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/10418385-7861826 |
| OpenAlex | W3006081820 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
This essay explores the interlinked discourses of memory that put slavery, indenture, colonization, and apartheid into comparison. The term connective tissue, with its connotations of organic and inorganic interweavings (fabrics, bodies and their microstructures, societies and their networks), elaborates memory that is composed through entanglement and expressed through distinctly networked technologies. These technologies include textuality’s semiotic weave (Barthes, Derrida), the nonlinearity of Glissant’s Relation, and the affective intensities, sensory experience, and inherited memory of diasporic identity, here given shape through critical memoir. Connective tissue models an approach to a comparative memory studies animated by entanglement rather than competitive hierarchization of the events of racialized historical violence
Aesthetics · Art · Biology · Connective tissue · Epistemology · Identity (music · Literature · Physics · Quantum · Quantum entanglement · Semiotics · Sociology · Textuality · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Philosophy · Photography and Visual Culture
Trauma
From Gaza to Warsaw
Provincializing Europe
Notions of Identity, Diaspora, and Gender in Caribbean Women’s Writing
Memory and Complicity
Unclaimed Experience
The Empire of Trauma
What Place Is This? Transcultural Memory and the Locations of Memory Studies
Poetics of relation
Black Atlantics, White Indians, and Jews
The Generation of Postmemory
Specters of Marx
Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
African Modes of Self-Writing
Trauma, Absence, Loss
| Highly cited | No |
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