Author: Trinh T. Minh-ha
In contrast to the idea that a story is ‘just a story’, pioneering postcolonial feminist theorist & filmmaker Trinh T. Minh-ha recodes ideas about truth & fantasy to tell a different story about power, civilisation, history, medicine & magic. ‘Grandma’s Story’ shows how creative speech is connected to women’s powers of enchantment, drawing upon & speaking with storytellers Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Clarice Lispector, Maxine Hong Kingston, Leslie Marmon Silko & Zora Neale Hurston.The storyteller is the living memory of her time: at once an oracle, weaver, healer, warrior, witch, protectress, teacher and great mother. Her powers are to do with passing on – not only the stories but transmission itself: ‘what grandma began, granddaughter completes and passes on to be further completed.’