’Membering

AvAustin Clarke

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted2016 RBC Taylor Prize — LonglistedThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.”Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In ’Membering, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the ’60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers.Clarke has been called Canada’s first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he ’members them.

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Utgivningsdatum:2015-10-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:653 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:496
Förlag:Dundurn Group Ltd
ISBN:9781459730342
Utmärkelser:Long-listed for OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature 2016 (Trinidad and Tobago)

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Austin Clarke is one of Canada’s foremost authors, whose work includes ten novels, six short-story collections, three memoirs, and two collections of poetry. His novel The Polished Hoe won the 2002 Giller Prize. Clarke is a member of the Order of Canada, holds four honorary doctorates, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Excellence in Writing, among others. In his fifty-year career he has worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington D.C. He lives in Toronto.

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[I]t is difficult to think of another Canadian writer so equipped through experience and sensibility — and graciousness, it must be said — to trace the attempts, stuttering at times, that Canada has made from the 1960s onward to accommodate diversity.

Innehållsförteckning

1 The Little Black Englishmen2 The Court Martial3 Toranno!… Toranno!… Toranno!…4 1960s Toronto5 The CBC Stagehand6 ÜJesus Christ, boy! You is a running-fool, a race horse!Ý7 Christmas, 19608 Timmins and Kirkland Lake9 Looking for “Colour”10 Harlem, 196311 Looking for Brother James and Brother Malcolm12 Aftermath13 Election Campaign, 197714 Georgia on My Mind15 A Walk from Asquith Avenue16 Mother’s Precepts and Commandments17 The Green Door House18 “Invisibility”19 The Culture of Chains20 Allies21 Audience with the Queen22 The “Loyalty of Negritude” in Sport23 “A Writer’s Life”24 Power Games25 Yale26 Aquarius27 The Old Boy28 HomeEpilogueAfterwordCredits