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Author: Dionne Brand
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Sep 1996
First Novels - The Knopf Four
by Eva Tihanyi
Both the most overtly political and the most opaquely written of the four books is Dionne Brand's In Another Place, Not Here. Brand, who has published a number of poetry volumes, including the best-selling No Language is Neutral (1990), Read more...
| JunJulAug 1999
Black Moon Over Trinidad
by Jack Illingworth
Many readers turn away from a book when they learn from the press that the author is "political". Even if they are comfortable with having their own beliefs challenged, they are wary of encountering didacticism when all they are really interested in is Read more...
| JanFeb 1995
Love Which is Insight
by George Elliott Clarke
Her voice -- succinct, lyrically accented, love-and anger-tinted -- seeps too deeply inside the flesh to allow anyone the luxury of forgetfulness. Read more...
| Dec 1990
A Love That Persists
by Erin Moure
"TO BE AWAKE more lovely than dreams," Dionne Brand writes, and her new book of poetry is one of waking and attentiveness, to one`s own history, one`s pain as a woman, as an immigrant to the place of foreign habits, to one`s own sexuality. Read more...
| NovDec 2001
A Door to No Past
by Gloria Hilderbrandt
Alex Haley's 1977 Roots is remarkable for its story of the power and longevity of oral historyùhow three words in an African language, handed down through seven generations, provided the evidence that could trace a genealogy back to a particular village in Africa, before slave hunters tore a young man away to exile in a new world.
A Map to the Door of No Return is Dionne Brand's exploration of her family's African origins. Read more...
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