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A Map of the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging
A Map to the Door of No Return is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond.
Dionne Brand is an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist.
Other publications from this author include:
- An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading (2020)
- The Blue Clerk (2018)
- Theory (2018)
- Love Enough (2014)
- Ossuaries (2010)
- Inventory (2006)
- What We All Long For (2005)
- Thirsty (2002)
- At the Full and Change of the Moon (1999)
- Bread Out of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics (1998)
- Land to Light On (1997)
- In Another Place, Not Here (1996)
- We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women’s History (1994)
- No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s (1991)
- No Language Is Neutral (1990)
- Sans Souci, and Other Stories (1988)
- Rivers have sources, trees have roots: Speaking of racism (1986)
- Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984)
- Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defence of Claudia (1983)
- Primitive Offensive (1982)
- Fore Day Morning: Poems (1978)