Abstract
This article contextualizes the work of Dionne Brand in the politics of liberation struggles of the 1960s and 70s, and then traces the evolution of the poetics of witness in four volumes of her poetry: No Language is Neutral, Land to Light On, thirsty and Inventory. Through an examination of the use of the pronouns I, you and we, it argues for the increasingly complex ways in which the poet invites her readers into acts of ethical witnessing and global citizenship.
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