A review by jenniechantal
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand

3.0

"While class and gender (the making of white class, white gender) may have been the obvious subjects of the narrative, race and colony as bedrocks of power are startlingly unremarked; in fact, normalized, stipulated, matter-of-fact.
The constant reinforcement of the unseen, unread, the hardening of narrative position, is the pedagogy of colony."

Cultural and literary criticism often goes over my head. I don't have the academic background that would allow me to better understand texts like these. But what I did get out of it is critical to helping me read with even more awareness and attention to what she calls the "pedagogy of colony".