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Numinous Animal
Tracing the Afrofuturism of Black Cowboys
AvBertrand Bickersteth
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
269 kr
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Numinous Animal explores the eclipsed history of Black cowboys on the Prairies. Part memoir, part regional history, and part literary analysis, it follows a journey of discovery through 19th- and early 20th-century cattle brands. Bickersteth confronts the legacy of branding in his own family history as someone descended from people who were touched by slavery. In tracing his family's complicated ties to slavery, he traces lines that connect West Africa to Nova Scotia, Edmonton to Freetown, the Underground Railroad to Cowboy trails. In this way, Numinous Animal serves as a bridge between African and Albertan historical legacies. The culmination of tracing these paths is a tantalizingly poetic collision between the oubli of the archive and the promise of Afrofuturism: the creation of a font traced from the cattle brands of Black cowboys and ranchers in Alberta. Bickersteth's artistry deconstructs marks of livelihood, ownership, and dehumanization, and reconstructs them into a language of life, freedom, and love.
Canadian Colored, Parts 1 and 2
AvBertrand Bickersteth
Häftad, Engelska, 2027
234 kr
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In the early 1900s, Black speculators from the rural United States began moving towards the safe haven of the Canadian prairie provinces—they were in search of a place to raise their families, nurture their communities, and tend to the land. Many came from the American South, but mostly they came from what were once the Oklahoma and Indian Twin Territories from which many had fled in 1907 during the formation of the state of Oklahoma and the inhumane segregation laws that followed and attacked them. They made new homes in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba as homesteaders, farmers, and whatever else they could find. They became Canadian, despite being, in the parlance of the day, “colored”.
Their communities have largely disappeared now, but they remain a crucial historical touchpoint in the identity of Black writers on the Prairies. The figure of this “colored Canadian” looms large in the Black past of so many writers and thinkers.
Response of Weeds, The
A Misplacement of Black Poetry on the Prairies
AvBertrand Bickersteth
Häftad, Engelska, 2020
187 kr
Skickas inom 11-20 vardagar
Winner of the 2021 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award!Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for PoetryWinner of a 2021 High Plains Book Award for First Book!Finalist for the 2020 City of Calgary W.O. Mitchell Book Prize!A 2020 CBC Poetry Book of the Year!Finalist for a 2021 High Plains Book Award for PoetryBertrand Bickersteth’s debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on often overlooked contributions to the province’s character and provides personal perspectives on the question of black identity on the prairies. Through these rousing and evocative poems, Bickersteth uses language to call up the contours of the land itself, land that is at once mesmerizing as it is dismissively effacing. Such is black identity here on this paradoxical land, too.

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Bertrand Bickersteth – författare

Numinous Animal

Canadian Colored, Parts 1 and 2

Response of Weeds, The

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