In this virtual talk titled "Gran moun se moun: On Grandmothers & Black Feminist Theorizing” Dr. Régine highlights the importance of grandmothers and grandmother figures in Black feminist theorizing, while simultaneously elaborating an ethic of care that extends to analyses of literary and visual culture. Examining the cultural significance of the elders in the Haitian context, this presentation begins a reading of images of elderly Haitian women from folk and visual culture. It also explore Évelyne Trouillet’s novel L’oeil-totem (2006) as an example that reveals the complexity of aging and ultimately contrasts the lived experience of aging women with the idea of how they are perceived in society.
