Chronicles: Early Works

ISBN-13: 9781554583744 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str.

Dionne Brand

Opis

One of Canada's most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and modern crises. This republication of three early volumes presents a view of the trajectory of her poetic journey. Read retrospectively, the earlier work is haunting, a testament to a historical moment in which change seemed possible, even imminent, a belief nourished by the various social movements that galvanized a generation. Individually and as a whole, Brand's work charts a collective as well as a personal journey, delving into the burdens of history and the fugitive, contingent, dynamic, and mutable geographies of the African diaspora. She locates herself within matrices of language, place, gender, sexuality, and politics and maps what she calls the "murmurous genealogy" of her city, Toronto, and the denizen-citizenship of the contemporary global.

Spis treści

• Chronicles: Early Works by Dionne Brand
• Foreword
• Leslie Sanders
• A Note on the Text
• Primitive Offensive (1983)
• Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia (1983)
• Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984)