{"product_id":"salvage","title":"Salvage \/\/ Readings from the Wreck","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eColoniality constructs outsides and insides--worlds to be chosen, disturbed, interpreted, and navigated--in order to live something like a real self.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the internationally acclaimed poet and novelist Dionne Brand offers a bracing account of reading, life, and what remains in the wreck of empire. Uniquely and powerfully blending criticism and autobiography as artifact, Brand explores her encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes in famous and familiar books, looking particularly at the extraordinary implications and modern-day reverberations of stories such as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e; 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 consciousness. Making and remaking the self in relation to these dominant cultural narratives, Brand learned to read the literature of two empires, the British and the American, in an anti-colonial light--in order to survive, in order to live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe scene is the act of reading. The book, another kind of forensics. A forensics of the literary substance of which the author is made and must recover from, and if not recover, then piece together as artifact. Much more than autobiography or a work of literary criticism, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalvage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is gripping, witty, revelatory, and essential reading by one of our most powerful and brilliant writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cb\u003eDionne Brand \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her latest poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eNomenclature: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Her other collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include \u003ci\u003eBread Out of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto's poet laureate, and in 2021 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePublish Date: October 01, 2024\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePages: 224\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDimensions: 5.38 X 8.25 X 1.0 inches | 1.0 pounds\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eType: Hardcover\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEAN\/UPC: 9780374614843\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBISAC Categories: Cultural, Ethnic \u0026amp; Regional - African American \u0026amp; Black\u003cbr\u003eLiterary Figures, Social History, American - African American, Caribbean \u0026amp; Latin American, Books \u0026amp; Reading, Subjects \u0026amp; Themes - Culture, Race \u0026amp; Ethnicity\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c!----\u003e","brand":"Dionne Brand","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48874187161835,"sku":"9781250397720","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45653887779051,"sku":"9780374614843","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0253\/4014\/9820\/files\/9780374614843.jpg?v=1721364004","url":"https:\/\/rep.club\/products\/salvage","provider":"Reparations Club","version":"1.0","type":"link"}