In the following essay, Sturgess considers Dionne Brand's particular status as “a Trinidadian Canadian black lesbian feminist” through a theoretically informed analysis of stories...
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In the following excerpt, Sangster examines Brand's attempt to give voice to a marginalized group of women in No Burden to Carry.
Exercising control over the definitions and creation of one&...
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In the following essay, Smyth discusses the idea of exclusion based on sexual orientation within the novels of Brand and author Shani Mootoo.
I have lost my place, or my place has deserted me. ...
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In the following essay, McCallum and Olbey discuss the historical context of In Another Place, Not Here, suggesting that the distant past associated with slavery informs the more recent past represent...
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In the following essay, Gingell reviews Land to Light On, maintaining that the power of the first-person narration in these poems makes it difficult for the reader to distinguish between author and na...
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In the following essay, Clarke reviews recent criticism of the works of three Trinidadian-Canadian writers: Brand, Claire Harris, and M. Nourbese Philip; and contends that few critics are willing to e...
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In the following essay, Wiens discusses the poem “No Language Is Neutral” as an ambivalent work that deals with two cultural locations—Trinidad and Toronto.
In his recent essay...
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In the following excerpt, Moynagh discusses Brand's treatment of cultural memory and the legacy of slavery in At the Full and Change of the Moon.
Dionne Brand's At the Full and Change...
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In the following review, Kong praises A Map to the Door of No Return.
In A Map to the Door of No Return, Dionne Brand embarks on a long journey into the ontological night, taking her reader to the ...
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In the following review, Johnston lauds A Map to the Door of No Return, praising Brand's exploration of slavery, identity, and discrimination in the book.
Dionne Brand, the award-winning poe...
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In the following review, Becze asserts that Brand's writing is compelling in A Map to the Door of No Return, discussing her examination of cartography, the black diaspora, identity, and the Car...
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In the following essay, Tillet characterizes At the Full and Change of the Moon as a “Caribbean neo-slave narrative.”
In the last decade, several Caribbean and African-American writer...
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In the following excerpt, Brydon suggests that “Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater,” which appears simple and accessible, is a complicated exploration of issues of identity and agency in t...
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In the following essay, Hunter compares Brand with writers Claire Harris and Marlene Philip as outsiders writing within the structures of the dominant discourse while articulating the ways in which th...
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In the following review, Busby contends that Brand's essays have much in common with journal entries in that they reveal the author's personal feelings without documenting the sources of...
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In the following excerpt, Beauregard praises the range of cultural issues covered in Bread Out of Stone, but faults Brand's representation of Canadian reading audiences as unsophisticated.
B...
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In the following essay, Renk explores images of fire and rage in the short stories in Sans Souci and Other Stories.
An oracle and a bringer of joy, the storyteller is the living memory of her time,...
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In the following review, Thorpe asserts that In Another Place, Not Here is a work that leaves no middle ground between the two extremes of self-hatred and retaliation against white oppression.
In A...
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In the following review, Ruta describes Brand's violation of the conventional distance between characters and narrator in In Another Place, Not Here. Ruta notes that even the narrator speaks in...
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In the following interview, Brand discusses relationship between her politics and her writing.
Dionne Brand is the author of several books of poetry, including Chronicles of the Hostile Sun and Win...
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Critical Essay by Charlotte Sturgess
