An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading

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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading is written by Dionne Brand and published by University of Alberta. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1772125156 (ISBN 10) and 9781772125153 (ISBN 13).

The geopolitics of empire had already prepared me for this...coloniality constructs outsides and insides—worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated—in order to live something like a real self. 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.