{"product_id":"salvage","title":"Salvage","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"UTF-8\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review's '100 Notable Books of 2024' • \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e' 'Best of 2024' • Trillium Book Prize winning author Dionne Brand explores English and American literature, and the colonial aesthetic that shaped her sense of self and the world, of what was possible and what was not.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eSalvage: Readings from the Wreck\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Dionne Brand's first major book of non-fiction since her classic \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and of what remains in the wreck of empire. Blending literary criticism and autobiography as artifact, Brand reads Aphra Behn's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Daniel Defoe's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Jane Austen's \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among other still-widely studied works, to explore encounters with colonial, imperialist and racist tropes from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century—tropes that continue in new forms today. Brand vividly shows how contemporary practices of reading and writing are shaped by the narrative structures of these and related works; and explores how, in the face of this, one writes a narrative of Black life that attends to its own consciousness and expression.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    With the power and eloquence of a great poet coupled with the rigour of a deep and subtle thinker, Brand reveals how she learned to read the literature of two empires, British and American, in an anti-colonial light—in order to survive, and in order to live.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e    This is the library, the wreck, and the potential for salvage she offers us now, in a brilliant, groundbreaking and essential work.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51707168588078,"sku":"9781039005860","price":24.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0965\/1385\/1694\/files\/9781039005860_tnmd.jpg?v=1777399294","url":"https:\/\/www.thebeeskneesemporium.ca\/products\/salvage","provider":"The Bee's Knees Books \u0026 Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}