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2. Building the Neo-Archive: Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Erica L. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2014-01
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism
- Journal Title Details:
- 12(1) : 149-171
- Notes:
- Dionne Brand's memoir, A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, touches on the author's childhood in Trinidad and adulthood in Canada but is equally concerned with understanding and intervening in the larger histories among which Brand situates her identity. Her sources are rich and varied, and they can be broken down into three general types: the historical archives written during the 'age of exploration' and the slave trade; the contemporary archives of newspapers and journals; and the creative archive of postcolonial writers, or the neo-archive.
3. In Another Place, Not Here
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Townes,Glenn (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-02-03
- Published:
- Nashville, TN
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Tennessee Tribune
- Journal Title Details:
- 4 : 5B
- Notes:
- Verila, on the other hand, is a woman who is in constant flight and change. She lives in Canada and has returned to her island birthplace, ultimately in search of happiness. Elizete professes her love for Verila early in the book. The excitement and overwhelming for desire Elizete has for Verila is palpable. She claims, "I abandon everything for Verila. I sink in Verila and let she flesh swallow me up. I devour her. She open me up like any morning. Limp, limp and rain light, soft to the marrow."