Books by Tracy Crowe Morey
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InterDISCIPLINARY Journal of Portuguese Diaspora Studies, 2015
. As recent as the release of 12 Years a Slave , the memory of slavery in the public sphere has b... more . As recent as the release of 12 Years a Slave , the memory of slavery in the public sphere has been a prevalent topic of discussion within the American cultural imaginary; however, the same cannot be said about Canada’s own legacy of slavery. In Afua Cooper’s The Hanging of Angelique the reader is exposed to the hidden testimony of one of Canada’s own dark secrets of slavery in the story of a Portuguese-born slave woman’s trials in Montreal during the 1730s. Cooper bears witness to Angelique’s voice of defiance and agency as represented in the trial sources and ultimately renders ‘visible’ the story of a “Portuguese-born Black woman who refused to accept her bondage” (backcover). This paper proposes to re-examine the hidden history of Canada’s involvement with the diasporic African slave trade by considering the life narrative of a Portuguese female slave’s rebellion/resistance as told by Afua Cooper in The Hanging of Angelique . We argue that Cooper uses a form of testimonial writ...
Between History and Fiction
Journal of the Motherhood Initiative For Research and Community Involvement, Nov 12, 2013
In the following paper, we engage with the artwork of Chicana artist Alma López as an example of ... more In the following paper, we engage with the artwork of Chicana artist Alma López as an example of recent conceptualizations and practices of geographical testimonial re-membering in the borderlands. By comparing such works as both testimony and as counter to the media’s and state’s representations of femicide occurring at the border, this paper identifies ‘borderland testimony’ as current practice and theory of urgently needed processes of decolonization—that is, processes of ethical forms of witnessing through indigenous traditions and knowledge which ultimately serve to meta-ideologize the dominant dis-embodiments and dehumanization of true Chicana lived experience.
Motherhood and War: International Perspectives, Eds. Diana Cooper and Claire Phelan, Jul 2014
"Mothers and Mothering in the Global Context". Journal for Motherhood Initiative, Dec 2013
With the publication of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera (1987), women’s testimonial lit... more With the publication of Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La frontera (1987), women’s testimonial literature has been viewed as an important genre that breaks silences, raises consciousness and builds solidarity among women, especially Latinas and Chicanas. Testimonial writing functions as one means through which Latina/Chicana writers, scholars, educators, and students are resisting traditional patriarchal conditions and constructs of motherhood to revision the institution as one based on empowerment through solidarity and sisterhood. In this paper, we explore the testimonial model established by the Latina Feminist Group as a vehicle through which to identify the diverse forms and contexts of mothering practices occurring at the borderlands of bi-geographical and bi-cultural identities. This paper is organized by way of four sections. The first provides an overview of Latin American and Chicana testimonial theory while the second section identifies testimonial writing as a pedagogy and site of diverse and multi-dimensional practices by Latina/Chicana mothers. For the final two divisions of the paper, we elaborate on the themes of solidarity and agency exemplified by the Latina Feminist Group as pedagogies for transformational (m)othering of the borderlands.
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