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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
by Dionne Brand

    Publication Date: Mar 17, 2020
    List Price: $12.99
    Format: Paperback, 72 pages
    Classification: Fiction
    ISBN13: 9781772125085
    Imprint: University of Alberta Press
    Publisher: University of Alberta Press
    Parent Company: University of Alberta

    Paperback Description:

    "The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this…coloniality constructs outsides and insides, worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted and navigated - in order to live something like a real self."

    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.

    Co-published with Canadian Literature Centre / Centre de litt?rature canadienne

    CLC Kreisel Lecture Series




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