Grandma's Story recodes the relationship between truth and fantasy to expose how storytelling carries — and transmits — power across generations, civilisations, and women's traditions of speech and enchantment.
About This Book
Pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha argues here that a story is never merely a story. In this compact but dense work, she dismantles the boundary between history and myth, medicine and magic, to reveal creative speech as a form of feminine power. Drawing on a constellation of writers — Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Zora Neale Hurston — Trinh constructs a portrait of the storyteller as oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, and great mother. The book is as much a theory of transmission as it is of narrative: the act of passing on is itself the story.
Key Features
- 96 pages of postcolonial feminist theory engaging storytelling as cultural and political practice
- Edited by Trinh T. Minh-ha
- Engages the work of Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Zora Neale Hurston
- Published by Silver Press
What You'll Discover
- How Trinh T. Minh-ha repositions storytelling as a form of power — not entertainment — rooted in women's traditions of enchantment and oral transmission
- The figure of the storyteller as simultaneously oracle, healer, warrior, and protectress: a living archive of collective memory
- A reading of truth and fantasy as inseparable, and why that inseparability matters for postcolonial and feminist thought
- The intergenerational logic of transmission: "what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed"
About the Author
Trinh T. Minh-ha is a pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist and filmmaker whose work crosses the boundaries of critical theory, film practice, and literary writing. Her scholarship consistently challenges Western constructions of knowledge, truth, and cultural authority.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 96
- Dimensions: 16 x 11.5 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781068591808
- Publisher: Silver Press
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Readers in feminist theory, postcolonial studies, cultural criticism, and literature with an interest in the politics of narrative, oral tradition, and women's intellectual history.