The Possibilities of Home

McKibbin, Molly Littlewood

doi:10.1177/0021934707306587

Journal of Black Studies

2007

DOI: 10.1177/0021934707306587

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The Possibilities of Home

Molly Littlewood McKibbin

Abstract: This discussion of Dionne Brand's novel What We All Long For focuses on the degree to which the second-generation characters are able to feel at home in Toronto. The article treats the city as the location where immigration, Blackness, racism, and other social factors meet and analyzes how each character negotiates space in his or her efforts to claim a home.

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Mobile Localities Beyond Monocultures of the Mind

Brydon

2014

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Employing insights from contemporary postcolonial, decolonial, and indigenous theory, this article argues that home, identity, and the politics of naming "here" are emerging as complex "mobile localities" with implications for how a globalizing world is understood. The Cartesian reasoning that enabled Eurocentric perspectives to lay sole claim to universality is now being challenged by decolonizing views that understand locality through a framework more closely attuned to what Boaventura Sousa de Santos calls "an ecology of knowledges." To hold to a single definition in a globalizing world increasingly marks a failure of imagination: a "monoculture of the mind" in a multicultural world. For many, locality may now be a form of translocality, in which alternative understandings of space and time co-exist, sometimes only concurrently, and sometimes mingling to form emergent understandings. The paper interprets two contemporary Canadian texts involved in renegotiating urban civic space--Cree poet Marvin Francis's City Treaty: A Long Poem and Trinidadian-Canadian Dionne Brand's What Localities, Vol. 4, 2014, pp. 7-49 Diana Brydon 8 Localities, Vol. 4We All Long For: A Novel -with the aim of providing a revised model for understanding locality in a globalizing world. Revisions of the local such as those offered by Brand and Francis reveal the potential for understanding locality as a living, moving, metamorphizing space rather than a determinant place of origin.

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Settler Nationalism and the Foreign: The Representation of the Exogene in Ernest Thompson Seton’sTwo Little Savagesand Dionne Brand’sWhat We All Long For

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2013

University of Toronto Quarterly

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1 The revised 2011 edition of Discover Canada continues to use the phrase 'barbaric cultural practices' while adding 'forced marriage' to its list of examples of gender-based violence (9). settler nationalism and the foreign 279 university of toronto quarterly, volume 82, number 2, spring 2013 university of toronto quarterly, volume 82, number 2, spring 2013 © university of toronto press doi: 10.3138/utq.82.2.278 settler nationalism and the foreign 281 university of toronto quarterly, volume 82, number 2, spring 2013

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