Grada Kilomba

“…bell hooks uses there two concepts of “subject” and “object”, arguing that subjects are those who alone “have the right to define their own reality, establish their own identities, name their history.”

Source: Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories, Unrast: 2016. S. 10.

“I am not the “Other” but the self, not the object, but the subject, I am the describer of my own history, and not the described. Writing therefore emerges as a political act.”

Quelle: Grada Kilomba, Plantation Memories, Unrast: 2016. S. 10.