2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted 2016
RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted The 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.
General
Imprint: |
Dundurn Group
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Country of origin: |
Canada |
Release date: |
October 2015 |
Authors: |
Austin Clarke
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 28mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
496 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4597-3034-2 |
Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
General
Promotions
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LSN: |
1-4597-3034-8 |
Barcode: |
9781459730342 |
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