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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Dionne Brand"”.
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The burden of the body : selfhood and representation in the works of Dionne Brand
The works of Dionne Brand constitute an ongoing exploration of the formation and representation of the self. In the poems of No Language is Neutral (1990) and Land to Light On (1997), the short stories of Sans Souci (1989), and the novel In Another Place, Not Here (1996), Brand develops a notion of …
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"Maybe home is an uneasy place": Dionne Brand's uneasy home-spaces
When contemporary Caribbean-Canadian writer Dionne Brand encounters home, she is confronted by social norms - domestic and national - that may exclude her based on race, gender, sexuality and birthplace, or that may include her on the conditional denial of any one of these identifications. Reading …
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Narrating silences : silence, voice and history in the prose of Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Philip, and Joy Kogawa
… for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence and Dionne Brand's Sans Souci and Other Stories are compared to examine how these fictions explicate the relationship between silence, voice, and language through their revisions of history. Language is problematic to these writers because it is …
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Reaching for Opacity: Contemporary Afrodiasporic Literature
… Danticat, Fred Moten, M. NourbeSe Philip, Dionne Brand, and Claudia Rankine, this dissertation amplifies the call for a heightened awareness of the way opacity is woven into both our quotidian encounters and collective political life in a manner we cannot simply disown. Each chapter of this …
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Cartographic Memories and Geographies of Pain: Bodily Representations in Caribbean Women's Art
… Caribbean female perspectives and experiences. Dionne Brand, Edwidge Danticat, Marion Hall, Joan Riley and Myriam Warner-Vieyra provide us with an opportunity to trace the processes through which Caribbean women artists write their own bodies and how those bodies can be used to explore larger …
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Creative Spatializations: New Cartographies in Contemporary Black Canadian Fiction
… Moon (1999) and What We All Long For (2005) by Dionne Brand, Any Known Blood (1997) and The Book of Negroes (2007) by Lawrence Hill, and Soucouyant (2007) by David Chariandy. I specifically examine four topographies through which these writers relate ‘blackness’ to ‘Canadianness,’ namely, the …
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Contextualizing narrative theory: reading the politics of formal innovation in contemporary women's fiction
… Goto, Ali Smith, Jackie Kay, Erna Brodber, Dionne Brand, Aritha van Herk. The first chapter formulates an in-between critical space where feminist and postmodernist theories of narrative intersect. It re-examines metafiction through the lens of auto(bio)graphical practice and feminist …