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Learning to (Re)member the Things We’ve Learned to Forget

Endarkened Feminisms, Spirituality, and the Sacred Nature of Research and Teaching

by Cynthia B. Dillard (Author)
©2012 Textbook XIV, 120 Pages

Summary

Feminist research has both held and contested experience as a category of epistemological importance, often as a secular notion. However, spirituality and sacred knowing are also fundamental to a Black/endarkened feminist epistemology in teaching and research, given the historical and cultural experiences of African ascendant women worldwide. How can (re)membering bear witness to our individual and collective spiritual consciousness and generate new questions that inform feminist theory and practice? Learning to (Re)member the Things We’ve Learned to Forget explores that question. Theorizing through sites and journeys across the globe and particularly in Ghana, West Africa, this book explores how spirituality, location, experience, and cultural memory engage and create an endarkened feminist subjectivity that can (re)member, opening possibilities for research and teaching that honors the wisdom, history, and cultural productions of African diasporic women particularly and persons of African heritage generally.

Details

Pages
XIV, 120
Year
2012
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433112829
ISBN (Softcover)
9781433112812
Language
English
Keywords
memories consciousness location experience cultural memory subjectivity culture spirituality African African American Black feminisms
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2012. XVI, 128 pp., num. ill.

Biographical notes

Cynthia B. Dillard (Author)

Cynthia B. Dillard (Nana Mansa II of Mpeasem, Ghana, West Africa) is the Mary Frances Early Endowed Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Georgia. Her first book On Spiritual Strivings: Transforming an African American Woman’s Academic Life (2006) was selected for the 2008 Critics’ Choice Book Award by the American Educational Studies Association (AESA).

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