A Map to the Door of No Return

A Map to the Door of No Return
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Publisher : Picador
Total Pages : 172
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ISBN-10 : 9781250357908
ISBN-13 : 125035790X
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Book Synopsis A Map to the Door of No Return by : Dionne Brand

Download or read book A Map to the Door of No Return written by Dionne Brand and published by Picador. This book was released on 2024-10-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its first American edition, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking A Map to the Door of No Return has emerged as a modern classic, a highly influential exploration of “being” in the Black Diaspora. Since its first publication in 2001, Dionne Brand’s groundbreaking exploration of being in the Black Diaspora, A Map to the Door of No Return, has emerged as a modern classic. The door, in Brand’s iconic schema, represents the point of rupture where the ancestors of the Black Diaspora departed one world for another: the place where all names were forgotten, and all beginnings recast. “This door,” writes Brand, “is not mere physicality. It is a spiritual location . . . Since leaving was never voluntary, return was, and still may be, an intention, however deeply buried. There is as it says no way in; no return.” Through shards of history, memoir, lyrical investigation, and the unwritten experience of so many descendants of those who passed through the door, Brand constructs a map of this indelible region, culminating in an enduring expression, both definitive and seeking, of what it is to live, think, and create in the wake of colonization. With a new preface by the author, and an afterword by Saidiya Hartman.


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