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CBC Massey Lectures | # 6: Asia and the Art of Storytelling
Category: Society & Culture
Duration: 00:54:08
Publish Date: 2022-01-31 06:10:00
Description: In her final Massey Lecture, Esi Edugyan speaks to how China and Japan created their ideas of Blackness from imported stories of pre-twentieth-century Africa, "shaping cultural expectations and in turn shaping the Black history and experience in Asia." For Esi Edugyan going to Asia served as a lesson in the power of storytelling and also the dangers of Othering.
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