Il Tolomeo Rivista di studi postcoloniali | A Postcolonial Studies Journal | Journal d’études postcoloniales | Revista de estudos pós-coloniais

Journal | Il Tolomeo
Journal issue | 25 | 2023
Research Article | Lineage, Language: Archival Fabulations in Water is a Time Machine

Lineage, Language: Archival Fabulations in Water is a Time Machine

Abstract

The article investigates Aline Motta’s artistic and political fabulation in Water is a Time Machine (2022). Making use of archive materials, her language reenacts “poetry by other means” (Perloff 2010). On the other hand, her research on her own lineage, which intertwines with the history of black lives in Brazil, points to other horizons of invention. In dialogue with reflections by Leda Martins on ‘spiraling time’, by Saidiya Hartman on ‘critical fabulation’ and by Marylin Strathern on contemporary kinship studies, we observe how the artist performs a phantomalization related to her matrilineal genealogy.


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Submitted: Oct. 20, 2023 | Published Dec. 18, 2023 | Language: en

Keywords Matrilineality • Aline Motta • Critical fabulation • Phantomalization • Archive

Copyright © 2023 Carla Miguelote, Lucia Ricotta. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

Permalink http://doi.org/10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2023/01/018


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