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Simone Atangana Bekono, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Djamila Ribeiro, Lola Shoneyin and Oksana Zabuzhko talk with Vakhtanh Kebuladze

Letting go of the past: what is the anti-colonial struggle?

Lviv BookForum 2024, 

What path should be chosen by one group that has long been subordinated to another, stronger one? Is the cancel culture the only way to break free from the domination of the aggressor?. And what if this aggressor is an empire?

A discussion on how we make sense of the post-imperial heritage, and whether it is necessary to renounce it, with the Dutch writer Simone Atangana Bekono, Indian literary critic and feminist Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak; Brazilian feminist philosopher and journalist Djamila Ribeiro; Nigerian writer and activist Lola Shoneyin; and Ukrainian philosopher and writer Oksana Zabuzhko. Chaired by philosopher Vakhtanh Kebuladze.

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Djamila Ribeiro, Simone Atangana Bekono and Lola Shoneyin will join the event digitally.

Simone Atangana Bekono, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Djamila Ribeiro, Lola Shoneyin and Oksana Zabuzhko talk with Vakhtanh Kebuladze