An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (CLC Kreisel Lecture)
Current price:
$12.99
Publication Date: January 8th, 2020
Publisher:
University of Alberta Press
ISBN:
9781772125085
Pages:
72
Description
The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for thiscoloniality 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.
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