Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Grandma's Story

Grandma's Story

Minh-Ha, Trinh T.

Paperback

Series: Portals

RadioStorytellingWomen's Studies

Publisher Price: $9.99

ISBN10: 1068591803
ISBN13: 9781068591808
Publisher: Spiral House Editions
Published: Sep 20 2025
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.14
Height: 0.29 Width: 4.80 Depth: 6.29
Language: English
The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on - not only the stories but transmission itself: what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed.

In contrast to the idea that a story is just a story, pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha recodes ideas about truth and fantasy to tell a different story about power, civilization, history, medicine and magic. Grandma's Story shows how creative speech is connected to women's powers of enchantment, drawing upon and speaking with storytellers including Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko and Zora Neale Hurston - all who may be known as she who breaks open the spell.

Also from

Minh-Ha, Trinh T.

View All

Also in

Women's Studies

View All