This article proposes to look back onto the Black Canadian works produced around the turn of the twenty-first century to establish some of the decolonial practices they promoted, arguing that they remain pivotal in decentering the colonial gaze that to this day is at the root of anti-Black hatred. In the face of continued structural violence and anti-Black racism preeminent across Canada to date, it attempts to unpack the purpose and means deployed in their early texts by two pioneer Black Canadian women writers, Djanet Sears and M. NourbeSe Philip, to decolonize African cultural memory from the diaspora by teaching us to value African legacies outside of Eurocentric standards. Drawing from feminist anthropologist Rita Segato, it contends that these texts perform a “counter-pedagogy of cruelty,” that is, an act of resistance to all those sociocultural practices by which people are taught, trained, and hardened to the ongoing commodification of others.

本文拟回顾二十世纪之交加拿大黑人的作品，以确立他们所提倡的一些非殖民实践，认为它们在分散殖民目光方面仍然发挥着关键作用，而这种目光至今仍是殖民主义的根源。反黑人仇恨。面对迄今为止加拿大各地持续存在的结构性暴力和反黑人种族主义，本书试图揭示两位先驱加拿大黑人女作家 Djanet Sears 和 M. NourbeSe Philip 在其早期文本中所采用的目的和手段，以实现非洲非殖民化。通过教导我们在以欧洲为中心的标准之外珍视非洲的遗产，我们可以从侨民那里获得文化记忆。它借鉴了女权主义人类学家丽塔·塞加托的观点，认为这些文本执行了一种“反残酷教育学”，即对所有那些社会文化实践的抵制行为，通过这些社会文化实践，人们被教导、训练和硬化，以适应他人的持续商品化。