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An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading by Dionne Brand
“Narrative is not just the simple transportation of language but of ideas of the self, and ideas of the self contain negations of other people. What is it, then, to adopt or be indoctrinated into these narrative structures, those ideas, to come to know these ideas as your own, when you are the negated people?” - Dionne Brand, An Autobiography of the Autobiography of Reading
Something about Brand’s writing offers me a pleasant clarity. I see my clumsy attempts at articulating what I see and feel on literature presented precisely and often in gorgeous prose! This mini book is a part of the Henry Kreisel lecture series published by the University of Alberta Press, and offers a more accessible forum for critical canadian literary theory. I will not lie tho, I definitely bought this because it was by Dionne Brand lol, but reading the introductory statement piece has picked my curiosity to see what other lectures are in this series!
Something about Brand’s writing offers me a pleasant clarity. I see my clumsy attempts at articulating what I see and feel on literature presented precisely and often in gorgeous prose! This mini book is a part of the Henry Kreisel lecture series published by the University of Alberta Press, and offers a more accessible forum for critical canadian literary theory. I will not lie tho, I definitely bought this because it was by Dionne Brand lol, but reading the introductory statement piece has picked my curiosity to see what other lectures are in this series!