Brand, Dionne
Salvage: Readings from the Wreck
- ISBN 13:
- 9780374614843
- author:
- Brand, Dionne
- format:
- Hardback
- publisher:
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2024
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 21 x 13.7 x 2.5 centimetres (0.2
- Genre:
- Biography, Literary, Fiction & Literature,
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 6 working days
Description
Dionne Brand's Salvage Readings from the Wreck is a powerful exploration of the intersections between reading and life. Blending literary criticism and autobiography, Brand examines how encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes in 17th- to 19th-century literature continue to shape contemporary practices of reading and writing. Through close readings of works such as Oroonoko, Robinson Crusoe, and Mansfield Park, Brand reveals how she learned to read the literature of two empires - British and American - in an anticolonial light. This book offers a bracing look at the ways in which narrative structures shape our understanding of Black life and expression. With the power and eloquence of a great poet coupled with the rigor of a deep thinker, Brand reveals how she navigates the complexities of reading and writing in order to survive and live.
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