Reading isn't always about looking for what's familiar.
Often, voices and conversations are overlooked when we don't know how to listen to what they're telling us. In her latest academic book, Autochthonomies, Myriam J. A. Chancy, Professor of the Humanities at Scripps College, guides us towards a new approach to reading that can face texts on their own terms.
In this video, we walk you through some of the key concepts and ideas from the book. What do appropriation and misreading really mean? What overlooked conversations do we discover when we look at Afrodiasporic retentions in Black writers? And how might we push beyond a world marked by races and colors, into recognizing the cultural heritage that lies beyond the West?
Watch our full conversation with Professor Chancy here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMyVuQUMUQs
We're immensely grateful to Dr. Chancy for this interview, and for allowing us to explore her ideas through the Overthink platform. Explore her brilliant, award-winning fiction and more of her academic work at her website: http://myriamchancy.com
This video is part of a new Overthink interview series, History and Memory in the Americas. Check out the full series on the Overthink channel:
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* Aaron and Emilio's views, glosses, and interpretations are their own, and do not reflect the opinions of Professor Chancy.