Archive of Tongues: An Intimate History of Brownness

by Moon Charania

In Archive of Tongues Moon Charania explores feminine dispossession and the brown diaspora through a reflection on the life of her mother. Drawing on her mother's memories and stories of migration, violence, sexuality, queerness, domesticity, and the intimate economies of everyday life, Charania conceptualizes her mother's tongue as an object of theory and an archive of brown intimate life. By presenting a mode of storytelling that is sensual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478016833
• ISBN13: 9781478016830
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"