Rememorying With Picture Books in the Formation of New Diasporic Literary and Anticolonial Caribbean Knowledges

Session Type: Working Group Roundtable

Abstract

This round table presentation highlights text analyses and practices that name injustices and serve to co-construct opportunities for more equitable educational spaces, increasing the visibility of diasporic Afro Caribbean Children’s Literature in classroom libraries. Through Latinx anticolonial and Endarkened feminist methodologies on (re)membering and rememory, the storying-data presented by a group of Caribbean descent scholars, focuses on articulating new ways of envisioning our relationship with critical fiction picture books in the diaspora. Findings suggest that by making visible the intentional anticolonial meaning making actions when thinking dangerously with texts, it is possible to disrupt dominant notions of reading interpretation as individual, static and fragmented, illustrating reading acts that emerge from people’s cultural intuition, memories, transnational epistemologies and healing processes.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Writing and Literacies

Chair

• Carmen M. Martinez-Roldan, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Learning to Reconoc(eR): Rememorying as Collectively Engaged Literary Praxis - Astrid Nicholl Sambolín Morales, Kent State University

• Reencuentro: Using Puerto Rican Children's Literature as a Space for Social Actionings and Awareness - Francisco L. Torres, Kent State University; Astrid Nicholl Sambolín Morales, Kent State University

• Truth in Our Existence: Racialized Decolonialites in Tami Charles's Freedom Soup - Dianne T. Wellington, SUNY - College at Cortland; Carmen L. Medina, Indiana University