In memoriam : Bell Hooks (Gloria Watkins)

Abstract

Tal Dor pays tribute to bell hooks a couple of days following the announcement of her demise. The journal was already at the stage of final production which had to be delayed to include this paper as a tribute to the great African-American activist, writer, poet, luminary and pedagogue. It is also fitting for a special issue on Freire, who was a key source of inspiration to hooks, who desired to engage in a ‘talking book’ with him which, alas, never came to pass. Tal Dor juxtaposes hooks’ and her own settler colonial worlds in this tribute which takes the form of an open letter.