Shailja Patel’s Migritude engages in strategies of addressing, negotiating, and ultimately opposing violence that all play out along differing visual, textual, and material routes. Migritude can best be described as multi-modal and hybrid; it initially originated as a spoken-word performance and has since metamorphosed and become a conglomeration of art, poetry, and autobiography in book form. It is not only the story of Patel’s own movements across the world, but is also intertwined with her family’s transoceanic migration stories from Gujarat to Nairobi as one possible narrative of the Asian-African diaspora. What lies at the heart of Migritude is a suitcase full of saris which Patel inherited from her mother: working with and through the cloth of the saris, Migritude showcases both female vulnerability and resistance. By transferring the saris’ affective materiality onto the stage and onto the page, Patel engages in processes of visually and physically engaging with the cloth of the sari to excavate stories of violence, trauma, and healing. This essay will outline how Migritude facilitates processes of resistance and of community building via performance, via intermedial and textual strategies, and via the physicality of its stage show. It posits that Migritude can be regarded as a visual and material text that words the oceanic travels of the Indian and African diaspora, and through its textile and textural indebtedness to the violent histories of colonization produces alternative spaces that further the notion of diasporic connectivity and encounter.

Shailja Patel 的 Migritude 参与了解决、谈判和最终反对暴力的策略，所有这些都沿着不同的视觉、文本和物质路线发挥作用。迁移最好被描述为多模式和混合；它最初起源于口语表演，后来演变成书籍形式的艺术、诗歌和自传的集合体。这不仅是帕特尔自己在世界各地活动的故事，而且还与她的家人从古吉拉特邦到内罗毕的跨洋移民故事交织在一起，作为亚非侨民的一种可能叙述。Migritude 的核心是一个装满纱丽的手提箱，这是 Patel 从她母亲那里继承来的：使用并通过纱丽的布料，Migritude 展示了女性的脆弱性和抵抗力。通过将纱丽的情感物质转移到舞台和页面上，帕特尔参与了与纱丽布料进行视觉和身体接触的过程，以挖掘暴力、创伤和治愈的故事。本文将概述移民如何通过表演、中介和文本策略以及舞台表演的物理性促进抵抗和社区建设的过程。它假定移民可以被视为一种视觉和物质文本，描述了印度和非洲侨民的海洋旅行，并通过其对殖民暴力历史的纺织和结构债务产生了替代空间，进一步推动了侨民连通性和相遇的概念. 帕特尔参与视觉和身体接触纱丽布料的过程，以挖掘暴力、创伤和治愈的故事。本文将概述移民如何通过表演、中介和文本策略以及舞台表演的物理性促进抵抗和社区建设的过程。它假定移民可以被视为一种视觉和物质文本，描述了印度和非洲侨民的海洋旅行，并通过其对殖民暴力历史的纺织和结构债务产生了替代空间，进一步推动了侨民连通性和相遇的概念. 帕特尔参与视觉和身体接触纱丽布料的过程，以挖掘暴力、创伤和治愈的故事。本文将概述移民如何通过表演、中介和文本策略以及舞台表演的物理性促进抵抗和社区建设的过程。它假定移民可以被视为一种视觉和物质文本，描述了印度和非洲侨民的海洋旅行，并通过其对殖民暴力历史的纺织和结构债务产生了替代空间，进一步推动了侨民连通性和相遇的概念. 本文将概述迁移如何通过表演、中介和文本策略以及舞台表演的物理性来促进抵抗和社区建设的过程。它假定移民可以被视为一种视觉和物质文本，描述了印度和非洲侨民的海洋旅行，并通过其对殖民暴力历史的纺织和结构债务产生了替代空间，进一步推动了侨民连通性和相遇的概念. 本文将概述移民如何通过表演、中介和文本策略以及舞台表演的物理性促进抵抗和社区建设的过程。它假定移民可以被视为一种视觉和物质文本，描述了印度和非洲侨民的海洋旅行，并通过其对殖民暴力历史的纺织和结构债务产生了替代空间，进一步推动了侨民连通性和相遇的概念.