Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
Publisher: University of Alberta Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 72
ISBN-13: 9781772125085
Subjects: Colonies in literature; Imperialism in literature; Blacks in literature
Description: "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."--