Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness
Wed 27 Mar 2024 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
The Marshall Building, Room 1.04, WC2A 3LY
Description
Speaker: Dr Moon Charania (Spelman College)
Chair: Dr Emrah Karakus (LSE Gender)
In Archive of Tongues, Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. Drawing on her mother’s memories and stories of migration, violence, sexuality, queerness, domesticity, and the intimate economies of everyday life, Charania conceptualizes her mother’s tongue as an object of theory and an archive of brown intimate life. By presenting a mode of storytelling that is sensual and melancholic, piercing and sharp, Charania recovers otherwise silenced modes of brown mothers’ survival, disobedience, and meaning making that are often only lived out in invisible, intimate spaces, and too often disappear into them. In narrating her mother’s tongue as both metaphor for and material reservoir of other ways of knowing, Charania gestures to the afflictions, limits, and failures of feminist, queer, and postcolonial scholarly interrogations and the consequences of closing the archive of the brown mother.
This event is free and open to the public but will require registration.
Location
The Marshall Building, Room 1.04, WC2A 3LY