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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Atansyon: The Colonizers Have Brown Skin

Atansyon: The Colonizers Have Brown Skin

Sylvaince, Marianata
Clement, Valencia

Paperback

General Poetry

ISBN13: 9798605912040
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 20 2020
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.19 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Atansyon is Haitian-Creole for be careful, or pay attention; it's a gesture of love and care. Atansyon is the title of Clement's third book. Coming a little over a year after her breakout poetry collection, Pale.Pa Ale: Speak. Don't Leave, Atansyon picks up where she left off and takes it in a new direction. In Pale, Clement used her voice to speak life and power into her voice and to the master narrative. In Atansyon, she wrestles with what she calls the pedagogy of settler colonialism, to unpack intersectional encounters with power, hegemony and solidarity.Atansyon has four sections: Professional Decolonization, Love Decolonization, Settler Decolonization and Spiritual Decolonization. Each chapter looks deep into her private and public life to share the intimate lessons learned from reawakening.The book is heavily influenced by the works of Toni Morrison, Gloria Anzaldúa, M. Shawn Copeland, James Baldwin and Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz. With these muses in mind, the book uses art and aesthetics to highlight and celebrate the intersectional, historical and spiritual features that helped Clement to preserve her own humanum, humanity.Let's meet hegemony with poetry to have an aesthetic and affective decolonization experience. Take the journey with her.

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