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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
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.
Dionne Brand is an award-winning poet, novelist, and essayist.
Other publications from this author include:
- The Blue Clerk (2018)
- Theory (2018)
- Love Enough (2014)
- Ossuaries (2010)
- Inventory (2006)
- What We All Long For (2005)
- Thirsty (2002)
- A Map of the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging (2001)
- 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)