Dionne Brand, Author . St. Martin's Griffin $13.95 (318p) ISBN 978-0-312-37771-7
Despite their hip exteriors, the four Toronto 20-somethings at the heart of Brand's solid novel all struggle with issues of race and identity. Tuyen, a lesbian artist, is the daughter of Vietnamese immigrants who still grieve for the son they...
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Dionne Brand, Author Firebrand Books $8.95 (150p) ISBN 978-0-932379-70-2
Brooding, obsessive stories of contemporary black life in Canada and the Caribbean offer an intimate view of women driven by poverty to leave their homes for a hostile new country. Most works are essentially monologues, capturing the language and...
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Dionne Brand, Author Coach House Press $14.95 (183p) ISBN 978-0-88910-492-1
A new breed of black cultural critic is emerging in the English-speaking world. Informed by international, African-centered pop music and by the feminist, Afro-American, Caribbean and Afro-British political movements of the 1960s, thinkers such as...
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Dionne Brand, Author Grove/Atlantic $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1622-2
Two worlds collide in this intense, sensuous first novel from a filmmaker, poet and essayist who was born in Trinidad and now lives in Canada. Both of the worlds are familiar to Caribbean-Americans: the verdant lushness of the islands, and the large
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Dionne Brand, Author Grove Press $24 (304p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1649-9
Close on the heels of her well-received first novel (In Another Place, Not Here), Brand delivers a distinguished, visionary work, grounded in the language and legacy of her native Trinidad. Intricately structured and lyrically narrated, the novel...
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Dionne Brand. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (224p) ISBN 978-0-374-61484-3
In this scintillating literary analysis, Canadian poet Brand (Nomenclature), who grew up in Trinidad, examines depictions of imperialism in works by Charlotte Brontë, William Thackeray, and other British writers. English imperialist fiction assumes...
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