TY - BOOK ID - 48274055 TI - An autobiography of the autobiography of reading PY - 2020 SN - 9781772125085 1772125083 1772125156 177212513X 9781772125139 9781772125146 1772125148 9781772125153 PB - Edmonton, Alberta, Canada DB - UniCat KW - Blacks in literature KW - Imperialism in literature KW - Racism in literature KW - English literature KW - History and criticism KW - Negroes in literature KW - 820 "19" KW - 82.04 KW - 82-94 KW - 82-94 Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie KW - Dagboek. Memoires. Autobiografie KW - 82.04 Literaire thema's KW - Literaire thema's KW - 820 "19" Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - Engelse literatuur--20e eeuw. Periode 1900-1999 KW - Racism in literature. KW - Authorship. KW - Colonies in literature. KW - Imperialism in literature. KW - Black people in literature. KW - Brand, Dionne, KW - Authoring (Authorship) KW - Writing (Authorship) KW - Literature KW - literature, narrative, race, literary criticism, reading practices, colonial aesthetics, C. L. R. James, William Makepeace Thackery, John Keene, Gwendolyn Brooks, slavery and narrative, race and narrative, Jean Rhys. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:48274055 AB - "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."-- ER -