An autobiography of the autobiography of reading /Dionne Brand

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press : (c)2020.; Canadian Literature Centre, (c)2020.Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xiii, 51 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PN56 .A986 2020
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:Subject: "Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes; the ways that practices of reading and writing are shaped by those narrative structures; and the challenges of writing a narrative of Black life that attends to its own expression and its own consciousness."--
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"Internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand reflects on her early reading of colonial literature and how it makes Black being inanimate. She explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes; the ways that practices of reading and writing are shaped by those narrative structures; and the challenges of writing a narrative of Black life that attends to its own expression and its own consciousness."--

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