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A review by kikireads
An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
5.0
Periodically, I doubt my personal approach to book criticism. I doubt its substance, grounding so much in the autobiographical. One is taught that the impersonal, "neutral" voice is more authoritative, more intellectually credible. Then a writer like Dionne Brand and blows all that blather away.
Starting from a childhood photograph into critiques of Vanity Fair, Jane Eyre, and Wide Sargasso Sea, among other texts, Brand maps herself as a reader within a colonial schema and then shows how she and other writers like Gwendolyn Brooks and Wilson Harris break free of it, to varying degrees of success.
I am decades younger and too much of it was still familiar which shows how necessary these readings are even now. Thanks to Wayne State University Press who sent this to me for review at The Book Slut. I'll add the review link when it's up.
(The star rating has no meaning, in this instance. Just there to keep things looking pretty.)
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Starting from a childhood photograph into critiques of Vanity Fair, Jane Eyre, and Wide Sargasso Sea, among other texts, Brand maps herself as a reader within a colonial schema and then shows how she and other writers like Gwendolyn Brooks and Wilson Harris break free of it, to varying degrees of success.
I am decades younger and too much of it was still familiar which shows how necessary these readings are even now. Thanks to Wayne State University Press who sent this to me for review at The Book Slut. I'll add the review link when it's up.
(The star rating has no meaning, in this instance. Just there to keep things looking pretty.)
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