Unsilencing the Past: Staging Black Atlantic Memory in Canada and Beyond

• Main Author: Camille Joy Turner
• Other Authors: Honor Ford-Smith
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: art; media art; arts based research; arts based methodology; embodied methods; black feminism; hauntology; Newfoundland; Canadian studies; walking; transatlantic slavery; colonial canada; afrofuturism; black geography; Black Atlantic; Black Studies; Middle Passage Memory; Avery; Canada; Faraway
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10315/39585

My project probes the silences of Newfoundlands colonial past by making connections between faraway lands on the other side of the Atlantic that seem, on the surface, to have nothing to do with this geography, but are, in fact, socially, economically, and geologically entangled. It traverses the lan...