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dc.identifier	ECF_article_6913
dc.title	Imaginations and Speculative Writings: Reinvesting Post-Colonial Possibilities and Subjectivities in Kaie Kellough’s Dominoes at the Crossroads
dc.contributor.author	Sbih Miriam
dc.publisher	Edizioni Ca’ Foscari - Digital Publishing, Fondazione Università Ca’ Foscari
dc.type	Articolo
dc.language.iso	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://edizionicafoscari.it/it/edizioni4/riviste/il-tolomeo/2021/1/imaginations-and-speculative-writings-reinvesting/
dc.description.abstract	Recent studies on speculative literature emphasise the narrative presence of postcolonial thinking that proliferates within the genre. It is the case in the collection Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020) by the African Canadian writer Kaie Kellough, which attempts to re-imagine and tell the story of the black diaspora in Montreal, other than under a colonial spectrum. The short stories use a variety of speculative strategies: whether it is reinvesting a marginalised figure of a classic Quebecois novel or imagining the setting of Montreal’s future in which marginalised populations own a majority of the properties. The analysis of these stories will allow us to show how speculative literature is fertile ground for postcolonial potentialities, by allowing us to project elsewhere. Since speculative literature is a broad genre whose definition is not circumscribed, we will see how reflecting on the alternative postcolonial imaginings through such narrative allows for a rewriting that makes it possible to go beyond the colonial paradigms.
dc.relation.ispartof	Il Tolomeo
dc.relation.ispartof	Vol. 23 \| Dicembre 2021
dc.issued	2021-12-20
dc.dateAccepted	2021-09-06
dc.dateSubmitted	2021-07-15
dc.identifier.issn
dc.identifier.eissn	2499-5975
dc.rights	Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.identifier.doi	10.30687/Tol/2499-5975/2021/23/020
dc.peer-review	yes
dc.subject	Decolonial thought
dc.subject	Decolonial thought
dc.subject	Kaie Kellough
dc.subject	Kaie Kellough
dc.subject	Montreal black diaspora
dc.subject	Montreal black diaspora
dc.subject	Postcolonial theory
dc.subject	Postcolonial theory
dc.subject	Speculative fiction
dc.subject	Speculative fiction

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Imaginations and Speculative Writings: Reinvesting Post-Colonial Possibilities and Subjectivities in Kaie Kellough’s Dominoes at the Crossroads

Miriam Sbih Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada

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Recent studies on speculative literature emphasise the narrative presence of postcolonial thinking that proliferates within the genre. It is the case in the collection Dominoes at the Crossroads (2020) by the African Canadian writer Kaie Kellough, which attempts to re-imagine and tell the story of the black diaspora in Montreal, other than under a colonial spectrum. The short stories use a variety of speculative strategies: whether it is reinvesting a marginalised figure of a classic Quebecois novel or imagining the setting of Montreal’s future in which marginalised populations own a majority of the properties. The analysis of these stories will allow us to show how speculative literature is fertile ground for postcolonial potentialities, by allowing us to project elsewhere. Since speculative literature is a broad genre whose definition is not circumscribed, we will see how reflecting on the alternative postcolonial imaginings through such narrative allows for a rewriting that makes it possible to go beyond the colonial paradigms.

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20 Dicembre 2021

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06 Settembre 2021

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15 Luglio 2021

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Keywords: Montreal black diaspora • Speculative fiction • Kaie Kellough • Postcolonial theory • Decolonial thought

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