After Canaan - Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

Informationen zum Autor Wayde Compton is a Vancouver writer whose previous books are the poetry collections 49th Parallel Psalm and Performance Bond and the anthology Bluesprint. He and Jason de Couto perform turntable-based sound poetry as a duo called the Contact Zone Crew. He teaches English at Emily Carr University and Coquitlam College in Vancouver. Klappentext The ever-more-complex culture of race in the 21st century, according to essayist and poet Wayde Compton. Inhaltsverzeichnis IntroductionPheneticizing Versus PassingBlackvoice and Stately Ways: Isaac Dickson, Mifflin Gibbs, and Black British Columbia's First Trials of AuthenticitySeven Routes to Hogan's Alley and Vancouver's Black CommunityThe Repossession of Fred BookerAlexis Mazurin, the Hot Sauce Posse, and Black History Month on the EdgeTurntable Poetry, Mixed-Race, and SchizophonophiliaObama and Language

Product details

• Authors: Wayde Compton, Compton Wayde, Wayde Compton
• Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.10.2011
• EAN: 9781551523743
• ISBN: 978-1-55152-374-3
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global), SOCIAL SCIENCE / Essays, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, Black & Asian Studies