Abstract
Dionne Brand, a poet, novelist, essayist, life-writer and documentary film-maker, is a relatively well-known figure in the Canadian English-language literary culture. [...]
Highlights
It comes to Brand’s fiction, the category of literature that ordinarily receives most attention from critics
She was named the Poet Laureate of the city of Toronto in 2009 and is admired for her rich and evocative use of the language: a finalist and winner of many awards, her collection of poetry Land to Light On won the most prestigious of Canadian literary prizes, the Governor-General’s award for poetry in English in 1997. In many aspects her status in the Canadian literature remains ambiguous. She is not a writer who can be overlooked; in The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature (2004), for example, she is chosen for analysis by major authorities on Canadian writing: Eva-Marie Kroller on “Exploration and Travel”, Coral Ann Howells on “Writing by Women”, Susan Egan and Gabriele Helms on “Life Writing” and Janice Fiamengo on “Regionalism and Urbanism”[1]
The approach is primarily thematic and gives priority to the importance of her personal experience and intellectual reflections as a black-skinned woman politically engaged within the Black Diaspora
Summary
It comes to Brand’s fiction, the category of literature that ordinarily receives most attention from critics.
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