Black Canadian literature

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 33. Chapters: Black Canadian writers, Books by George Elliott Clarke, Works by Nalo Hopkinson, Cecil Foster, Dionne Brand, Malcolm Gladwell, Rinaldo Walcott, Josiah Henson, Dan Hill, M. NourbeSe Philip, Charles R. Saunders, Orville Lloyd Douglas, André Alexis, Frances-Anne Solomon, Mary Ann Shadd, Clement Virgo, Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, Dany Laferrière, Louise Uwacu, Lawrence Hill, Chris Spence, Stephen Williams, D'bi Young, Austin Clarke, Annmarie Morais, Nega Mezlekia, Afua Cooper, Olive Senior, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Trey Anthony, We Have a Voice, Whispers from the Cotton Tree Root, The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Honor Ford-Smith, Da Kink in My Hair, Jane Musoke-Nteyafas, The Book of Negroes, So Long Been Dreaming, Malcolm Azania, Wayde Compton, Mojo: Conjure Stories, Michele Clarke, Makeda Silvera, Djanet Sears, Carrie Best, Mairuth Sarsfield, Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, David Chariandy, George Boyd, Didier Leclair, Black Like Who?, No Crystal Stair, Robert Edison Sandiford, Robert Adetuyi, Whylah Falls, Kaie Kellough, Sudz Sutherland, George and Rue, Royson James. Excerpt: Dionne Brand (born January 7, 1953) is a Canadian poet, novelist, essayist and documentarian. She was named Toronto's third Poet Laureate in September 2009. Brand is Caribbean born. Dionne Brand was born in Guayaguayare, a small fishing village in Trinidad and Tobago. Immigrating to Canada in 1970, when she was 17 years old, Brand attended the University of Toronto where she earned a BA in 1975. Brand also holds a MA (1989) from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education - OISE. Currently Brand teaches at the University of Guelph. Brand frequently explores themes of gender, race, sexuality and feminism in her writing. In "Bread Out of Stone", Brand uses personal experiences and strong metaphoric language to expose racism, white male domination, injustices and the moral hypocrisies of Canada with its own assessment as being "not like the United States" As a show of support of women solidarity, Brand has participated in many anthologies and writing opposing the violent killings of Black men and women and specifically pointing out the massacre of fourteen women in Montreal and the racism and inequality experienced by Aboriginal women of Canada, particularly Helen Betty Osborne's death in the Pas. Despite the similarity of their names, she should not be confused with poet Di Brandt. Many scholars have analyzed Dionne Brand's work. In his book Black Like Who?, Rinaldo Walcott includes two essays ("A Tough Geography": Towards a Poetics of Black Space(s) in Canada and "No Language is Neutral": The Politics of Performativity in M. Nourbese Philip's and Dionne Brand's Poetry) that deal with Dionne Brand's poetry and take up the overarching themes of her work. Brand herself had previously used a line from Derek Walcott to title her collection, No Language is Neutral (nominated for Governor General's award) in which she "uses language to disturb" in poetry that is filled with biographic meanings and ancestral references, including contemporary inequality issues and racism.