Remembering in a Context of Forgetting: Hauntings and the Old Durham Road Black Pioneer Settlement

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  • Naomi Norquay

Abstract

This paper explores the data produced from an oral history project about a Black pioneer settlement in Grey County, Ontario. Twelve area residents were interviewed and the data produced points to various community practices of both remembering and forgetting. I employ Avery GordonÕs (2008) theorization of ghosts and hauntings to make sense of the gaps, silences, and contradictions that populated the interviews. The paper ends with a consideration of Roger SimonÕs (2000, 2005) plea for a practice of remembrance that is both ethical and pedagogical.

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2015-01-01

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Vol. 47 No. 2 (2015): Remembering Roger I. Simon: A Pedagogy of Public Possibility

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