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After Canaan : Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

2010

Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award

After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed Vancouver poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. It riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or "Canaan") encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (a.k.a. "passing"), the subjectivity of black writers in the unblack Pacific northwest, the failure of urban renewal, black and Asian comedy as a counterweight to official multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself. Compton marks the passing of old modes of antiracism and multiculturalism, and points toward what may or may not be a "post-racial" future, but will without doubt be a brave new world of cultural perception.

Written with the same poetic perceptiveness as cultural theorists Rinaldo Walcott and Dionne Brand, After Canaan is a brilliant and thoughtful collection of essays that ought to be required reading for all.

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Authors

Wayde Compton

Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-233) and index
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CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
305.800971
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
22
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Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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ISBN
9781551523873 9781551523743
LCCN
HM1271
LCCN Item number
C6523 2010eb
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CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (239 p.)
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Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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(CaBNVSL)slc00227270 (OCoLC)651119147 (CaOOCEL)439064
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Mode of access: World Wide Web
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CaOONL

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