Author

Publication

2001-09-25 - Doubleday Canada, Toronto, Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

57,500 words, Guess

Page Count

230 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

  • ISBN-100385258658
  • ISBN-139780385258654
  • Goodreads379994
  • Library of Congress Control Number2001535840
  • OCLC Control Number48655926
and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDC818/.5409
  • DDCB
  • LCCPR9199.3.B683 Z47 2001
and 1 more
  • LCCPS8553.R285 Z47 2001

Description

<em>A Map to the Door of No Return</em> is a timely book that explores the relevance and nature of identity and belonging in a culturally diverse and rapidly changing world. It is an insightful, sensitive and poetic book of discovery. Drawing on cartography, travels, narratives of childhood in the Caribbean, journeys across the Canadian landscape, African ancestry, histories, politics, philosophies and literature, Dionne Brand sketches the shifting borders of home and nation, the connection to place in Canada and the world beyond. The title, <em>A Map to the Door of No Return</em>, refers to both a place in imagination and a point in history — the Middle Passage. The quest for identity and place has profound meaning and resonance in an age of heterogenous identities. In this exquisitely written and thought-provoking new work, Dionne Brand creates a map of her own art.

Subjects

Genres

  • Biography

Links

Other Editions

  • A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to BelongingHardcoverDoubleday Canada2001-09-25

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