(a selection) BOOKS: Plantation Memories. Episodes of Everyday Racism. Münster: Unrast Verlag. (1st Edition 2008) (2nd Edition 2010)
Mythen, Masken und Subjekte. Kritische Weißseinforschung in Deutschland (co-editor with Eggers, Piesche and Arndt), Münster: Unrast Verlag. (1st Edition 2005) (2nd Edition 2009)
POETRY: Missanga, Lyrik: EE, 2007 Fruta Mango, Lyrik: EE , 2007 Poetic Revolution,Lyrik: EE, 2006
ESSAYS: Das N-Wort und Trauma. In Melter/Mecheril (Hg.): Rassismuskritik. Band 1: Rassismustheorie und Forschung. WochenschauVerlag. 2009.
Schwarze in der Universität. Diversity in Adversity. In AG gegen Rassismus in den Lebenswissenschaften (Hg.): Gemachte Differenz. Unrast 2009.
Memories. In Broden/ Mecheril (Hg.): Re-Präsentationen. IDA/NRW, Düsseldorf 2007.
Wo kommst du her? Das Spektakel des Schwarzen Körpers. In Golly/ Cohrs (Hg.) De/Platziert. Interventionen postkolonialer Kritik. wissenschaftlischerVerlag, Berlin 2004.
Rewriting the Black Body. In Perko/ Czollek (Hg.): Lust am Denken. Wien 2004.
Kolinizierung des Selbst - der Platz des Schwarzen. In: Rodriguez/ Steyerl (Hg.): Spricht die Subalterne deutsch? Migration und postkoloniale Kritik. Unrast, Münster 2003.
Die Farbe unseres Geschlechtes. In polymorph (Hg.): (K)ein Geschlecht oder viele? Transgender in politischer Perspektive. Berlin 2002.
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GRADA KILOMBA
BIOGRAPHY
with origins in the West African Islands São Tomé e Príncipe, Grada Kilomba was born in Lisbon where she studied clinical psychology and psychoanalysis at ISPA.
There she worked in the psychiatry with war survivors from Angola and Mozambique and developed several projects in the fields of memory and trauma.
Early on she started publishing her literary work in the form of Essays, Prosa and Poetry.
Her publications have been described as a combination of academic writing and lyrical narrative approaching remembered stories of slavery, colonialism and everyday racism.
Among others, she is the co-editor of the book 'Mythen, Masken and Subjekte' (Unrast 2005) and the author of 'Plantation Memories' (Unrast 2008) a compilaton of episodes of everyday racism written in the form of short psychoanalytical stories.
Following its release at the 2008 International Literature Festival in Berlin, 'Plantation Memories' has been internationally acclaimed and presented in some of the most significant events inside and outside Europe.
Grada Kilomba has been working in several Theatre projects based in London and Berlin. Recently she worked in the artistic adaptation and direction of Nuruddin Farah's literary piece 'Yesterday, Tomorrow' together with playwright Amy Evans, staged at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in Berlin.
Since 2004 she has developed a Workshop concept: "IN YOUR SOUL - Postcolonial Theory and Performance"© using Psychoanalytical elements, Movement and Theatre.
She holds a distinguished Doctorate from Freie Universität in Berlin (summa cum laude).
Kilomba has been lecturing in the frame of postcolonial studies on slavery, memory, trauma and gender at the Humboldt Universität - Berlin, department of Gender Studies; at the Freie Universität - Berlin, department of Psychology and Department of Political Sciences; as well as at the University of Ghana, at Legon/Accra, department of African Studies and Performing Arts.
Currently she is writing in her novel 'Kalunga', a story on the African diaspora, the post-slavery encounter and the world of the Orixás.
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