Abstract
When I read your paper I immediately began to conceptualize a response
in the spirit of “dear friend”: a direct offering to you through an intimacy
that comes with uncanny recognition of stories, memories, and dreams; an
intimacy that makes meaning in worlds steeped in histories of shared deepcolonialisms. It was easy to find myself in your contemplation on silences left
behind by ghosts, for your story, partly through and beyond the colonial archive, is familiar to the point of knowing. You began with a quote from Vine
Deloria, Jr.’s concept of relativity. Your words then rise from the page to trace
new paths across land and seascapes to settle on a small story, with me, in
South Australia.
in the spirit of “dear friend”: a direct offering to you through an intimacy
that comes with uncanny recognition of stories, memories, and dreams; an
intimacy that makes meaning in worlds steeped in histories of shared deepcolonialisms. It was easy to find myself in your contemplation on silences left
behind by ghosts, for your story, partly through and beyond the colonial archive, is familiar to the point of knowing. You began with a quote from Vine
Deloria, Jr.’s concept of relativity. Your words then rise from the page to trace
new paths across land and seascapes to settle on a small story, with me, in
South Australia.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 270-273 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Biography-An Interdisciplinary Quarterly |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jun 2016 |
Keywords
- K. Tsianina Lomawaima
- Memories
- Stories
- Dreams
- Trans-Indigenous biography