Divergent survivances
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.224873Keywords:
Colonialism, Survivance, Inheritance, Derrida, VizenorAbstract
This article reflects on the divergent grammars for inheritance and heritability in the ongoing shadow of colonialism and the Black Atlantic. Initially, two divergent approaches to survival are discussed: that of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and that of the Chippewa literary critic Gerald Vizenor. Next, the book project The Inheritance (Povinelli 2021) is briefly discussed, a visual historiography of the effects of colonialism and racism on two groups of clans: the author’s Simonaz clan, who moved from a small village in the Italian Alps to the United States, and the clans of the Karrabing Film Collective, whose lands were invaded at almost precisely the same time in the 19th century. In conclusion, the initial arguments are back to asking how we can think about alliances with other people, forged from histories of dispossession, without forgetting that we do not all share the same sedimentations of the history of dispossession.
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