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'A Map to the Door of No Return' is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond. The title, 'A Map to the Door of No Return', refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history & the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities. In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.

Non-fiction --- American literature --- Thematology --- anno 1900-1999 --- Canada --- Authors, Canadian --- West Indians --- Women, Black --- Social conditions. --- Brand, Dionne,

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Identité (psychologie) --- Écrivains appartenant à des minorités --- Nationalisme --- Multiculturalisme --- Brand (Dionne) --- Clarke (Austin), 1934 --- -Clarke (George Elliott), 1960 --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature --- Identité (psychologie) --- Écrivains appartenant à des minorités --- Nationalisme --- Multiculturalisme --- Brand (Dionne) --- Clarke (Austin), 1934 --- -Clarke (George Elliott), 1960 --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature --- Dans la littérature

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Blacks in literature. --- Lesbianism in literature. --- Lesbians in literature. --- Brand, Dionne, --- Kay, Jackie, --- Bridgforth, Sharon --- Muhanji, Cherry --- Brown, Laurinda D. --- Adamz-Bogus, SDiane, --- Barnett, LaShonda K. --- Gomez, Jewelle, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Negroes in literature --- Barnett, LaShonda Katrice, --- Bogus, SDiane Adamz, --- Blacks in literature --- Black people in literature.

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This book examines how concepts of citizenship have been negotiated in Anglophone Canadian literature since the 1970s. Katja Sarkowsky argues that literary texts conceptualize citizenship as political “co-actorship” and as cultural “co-authorship” (Boele van Hensbroek), using citizenship as a metaphor of ambivalent affiliations within and beyond Canada. In its exploration of urban, indigenous, environmental, and diasporic citizenship as well as of citizenship’s growing entanglement with questions of human rights, Canadian literature reflects and feeds into the term’s conceptual diversification. Exploring the works of Guillermo Verdecchia, Joy Kogawa, Jeannette Armstrong, Maria Campbell, Cheryl Foggo, Fred Wah, Michael Ondaatje, and Dionne Brand, this text investigates how citizenship functions to denote emplaced practices of participation in multiple collectives that are not restricted to the framework of the nation-state.

Sociology --- Public administration --- American literature --- Literature --- sociologie --- literatuur --- burgerschap --- Brand, Dionne --- Verdecchia, Guillermo --- Kogowa, Joy --- Armstrong, Jeannette --- Campbell, Maria --- Foggo, Cheryl --- Wah, Fred --- Ondaatje, Michael --- anno 1970-1979 --- anno 1980-1989 --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009 --- anno 2010-2019 --- America

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This book develops a theory of multimodality – the participation of a text in more than one mode – centred on the poetry/poetics of Lillian Allen, Claire Harris, Dionne Brand, and Marlene Nourbese Philip. How do these poets represent oral Caribbean English Creoles (CECs) in writing and negotiate the relationship between the high literary in Canadian letters and the social and historical meanings of CECs? How do the latter relate to the idea of “female and black”? Through fluid use of code- and mode-switching, the movement of Brand and Philip between creole and standard English, and written orality and standard writing forms part of their meanings. Allen’s eye-spellings precisely indicate stereotypical creole sounds, yet use the phonological system of standard English. On stage, Allen projects a black female body in the world and as a speaking subject. She thereby shows that the implication of the written in the literary excludes her body’s language (as performance); and she embodies her poetry to realize a ‘language’ alternative to the colonizing literary. Harris’s creole writing helps her project a fragmented personality, a range of dialects enabling quite different personae to emerge within one body. Thus Harris, Brand, Philip, and Allen both project the identity “female and black” and explore this social position in relation to others. Considering textual multimodality opens up a wide range of material connections. Although written, this poetry is also oral; if oral, then also embodied; if embodied, then also participating in discourses of race, gender, sexuality, and a host of other systems of social organization and individual identity. Finally, the semiotic body as a mode (i.e. as a resource for making meaning) allows written meanings to be made that cannot otherwise be expressed in writing. In every case, Allen, Philip, Harris, and Brand escape the constraints of dominant media, refiguring language via dialect and mode to represent a black feminist sensibility.

Women authors, Black --- Canadian literature --- Women authors, Black. --- Black women authors --- Canadian literature (English) --- English literature --- History and criticism. --- Black authors --- Black authors. --- Harris, Claire, --- Philip, Marlene Nourbese, --- Allen, Lillian, --- Brand, Dionne, --- Nourbese Philip, Marlene, --- Philip, M. Nourbese --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Canada. --- Canada (Province) --- Canadae --- Ceanada --- Chanada --- Chanadey --- Dominio del Canad --- Dominion of Canada --- Jianada --- Kʻaenada --- Kanada --- Ḳanadah --- Kanadaja --- Kanadas --- Ḳanade --- Kanado --- Kanak --- Province of Canada --- Republica de Canad --- Yn Chanadey --- Allen, Lillian Diana, --- Dominio del Canadá --- Kaineḍā --- Kanakā --- Republica de Canadá