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Description:The selections in "Fierce Departures," drawn from Dionne Brand's work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks and dislocates peoples of the African diaspora, how nations, concretely and conceptually, fail to create safe haven, and how human desire persists nevertheless. Through a widening canvas, Brand unfolds the (im)possibilities of belonging for those whom history has dispossessed. Yet she also shows how Canada, and in particular Toronto, remade by those who alight on it, is a place of contingency. Known for her linguistic intensity and lyric brilliance, Brand consoles through the beauty of her work and disturbs with its uncompromising demand for ethical witness.In her introduction, editor Leslie C. Sanders traces the evolution of Brand's poetic concerns and changing vision. In particular, she observes Brand's complex use of landscape and language to delineate the ethical and emotional issues around the desire for place. She argues that Brand reformulates Northrop Frye's question "Where is here?," disturbing and expanding the national imaginary.As afterword, Brand has selected passages from her evocative collection of essays "A Map to the Door of No Return." Read as an "ars poetica," the passages summon the presences of those whose lives are circumscribed by the histories the poet narrates as her own.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand (Laurier Poetry). To get started finding Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand (Laurier Poetry), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The selections in "Fierce Departures," drawn from Dionne Brand's work since 1997, delineate with searing eloquence how history marks and dislocates peoples of the African diaspora, how nations, concretely and conceptually, fail to create safe haven, and how human desire persists nevertheless. Through a widening canvas, Brand unfolds the (im)possibilities of belonging for those whom history has dispossessed. Yet she also shows how Canada, and in particular Toronto, remade by those who alight on it, is a place of contingency. Known for her linguistic intensity and lyric brilliance, Brand consoles through the beauty of her work and disturbs with its uncompromising demand for ethical witness.In her introduction, editor Leslie C. Sanders traces the evolution of Brand's poetic concerns and changing vision. In particular, she observes Brand's complex use of landscape and language to delineate the ethical and emotional issues around the desire for place. She argues that Brand reformulates Northrop Frye's question "Where is here?," disturbing and expanding the national imaginary.As afterword, Brand has selected passages from her evocative collection of essays "A Map to the Door of No Return." Read as an "ars poetica," the passages summon the presences of those whose lives are circumscribed by the histories the poet narrates as her own.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand (Laurier Poetry). To get started finding Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand (Laurier Poetry), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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