Dionne Brand

A Map to the Door of No Return (eBook, ePUB)

Notes to Belonging

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of 'being' in the Black diaspora.

Since its first publication in 2001, in Canada, Dionne Brand's groundbreaking exploration of being in the Black diaspora, A Map to the Door of No Return, has emerged as a modern classic. The door, in Brand's iconic schema, represents the point of rupture where the ancestors of the Black diaspora departed one world for another: the place where all names were forgotten, and all beginnings recast. "This door," writes Brand, "is not mere physicality. It is a spiritual location . . . Since leaving was never voluntary, return was, and still may be, an intention, however deeply buried. There is as it says no way in; no return."

Through shards of history, memoir, lyrical investigation, and the unwritten experience of so many descendants of those who passed through the door, Brand constructs a map of this indelible region, culminating in an enduring expression, both definitive and seeking, of what it is to live, think, and create in the wake of colonization.

With a new preface by the author, and an afterword by Saidiya Hartman.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Picador
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250357908
• Artikelnr.: 69664925

Autorenporträt

Dionne Brand; Afterword by Saidiya Hartman