{"product_id":"salvage-readings-from-the-wreck","title":"Salvage: Readings from the Wreck","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e's most anticipated books of 2024\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDionne 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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eSalvage: Readings from the Wreck\u003c\/i\u003e, Dionne Brand's first major book of nonfiction since her classic \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return\u003c\/i\u003e, the acclaimed poet and novelist offers a bracing look at the intersections of reading and life, and what remains in the wreck of empire. Blending literary criticism and autobiography-as-artifact, Brand reads Aphra Behn's \u003ci\u003eOroonoko\u003c\/i\u003e, Daniel Defoe's \u003ci\u003eRobinson Crusoe\u003c\/i\u003e, and Jane Austen's \u003ci\u003eMansfield Park\u003c\/i\u003e, among other still widely studied works, to explore encounters with colonial, imperialist, and racist tropes from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries--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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith the power and eloquence of a great poet coupled with the rigor of a deep and subtle thinker, Brand reveals how she learned to read the literature of two empires, British and American, in an anticolonial light--in order to survive, and in order to live. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the library, the wreck, and the potential for salvage she offers us now, in a brilliant, groundbreaking, and essential work.","brand":"Dionne Brand","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46327493558508,"sku":"9780374614843","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46327493591276,"sku":"9781250397720","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9780374614843.jpg?v=1743465468","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/salvage-readings-from-the-wreck","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}