Details
'Membering
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8,49 € |
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| Verlag: | Dundurn |
| Format: | EPUB |
| Veröffentl.: | 15.08.2015 |
| ISBN/EAN: | 9781459730366 |
| Sprache: | englisch |
| Anzahl Seiten: | 592 |
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Beschreibungen
<i>2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted</i>
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<i>2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted</i>
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<b>The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.”</b>
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<br>Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In
<i>’Membering</i>, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the ’60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers.
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<br>Clarke has been called Canada’s first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he ’members them.
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<i>2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted</i>
<br>
<br>
<b>The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.”</b>
<br>
<br>Austin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In
<i>’Membering</i>, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the ’60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers.
<br>
<br>Clarke has been called Canada’s first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he ’members them.
Giller Prize winner Austin Clarke’s memoirs provide insightful cultural observations by one of today’s most influential black writers.
1 The Little Black Englishmen
<br>2 The Court Martial
<br>3 Toranno!… Toranno!… Toranno!…
<br>4 1960s Toronto
<br>5 The CBC Stagehand
<br>6 ÜJesus Christ, boy! You is a running-fool, a race horse!Ý
<br>7 Christmas, 1960
<br>8 Timmins and Kirkland Lake
<br>9 Looking for “Colour”
<br>10 Harlem, 1963
<br>11 Looking for Brother James and Brother Malcolm
<br>12 Aftermath
<br>13 Election Campaign, 1977
<br>14 Georgia on My Mind
<br>15 A Walk from Asquith Avenue
<br>16 Mother’s Precepts and Commandments
<br>17 The Green Door House
<br>18 “Invisibility”
<br>19 The Culture of Chains
<br>20 Allies
<br>21 Audience with the Queen
<br>22 The “Loyalty of Negritude” in Sport
<br>23 “A Writer’s Life”
<br>24 Power Games
<br>25 Yale
<br>26 Aquarius
<br>27 The Old Boy
<br>28 Home
<br>Epilogue
<br>Afterword
<br>Credits
<br>2 The Court Martial
<br>3 Toranno!… Toranno!… Toranno!…
<br>4 1960s Toronto
<br>5 The CBC Stagehand
<br>6 ÜJesus Christ, boy! You is a running-fool, a race horse!Ý
<br>7 Christmas, 1960
<br>8 Timmins and Kirkland Lake
<br>9 Looking for “Colour”
<br>10 Harlem, 1963
<br>11 Looking for Brother James and Brother Malcolm
<br>12 Aftermath
<br>13 Election Campaign, 1977
<br>14 Georgia on My Mind
<br>15 A Walk from Asquith Avenue
<br>16 Mother’s Precepts and Commandments
<br>17 The Green Door House
<br>18 “Invisibility”
<br>19 The Culture of Chains
<br>20 Allies
<br>21 Audience with the Queen
<br>22 The “Loyalty of Negritude” in Sport
<br>23 “A Writer’s Life”
<br>24 Power Games
<br>25 Yale
<br>26 Aquarius
<br>27 The Old Boy
<br>28 Home
<br>Epilogue
<br>Afterword
<br>Credits
<b>Austin Clarke</b> is one of Canada’s foremost authors, whose work includes ten novels, six short-story collections, three memoirs, and two collections of poetry. His novel
<i>The Polished Hoe</i> won the 2002 Giller Prize. Clarke is a member of the Order of Canada, holds four honorary doctorates, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Excellence in Writing, among others. In his fifty-year career he has worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington D.C. He lives in Toronto.
<i>The Polished Hoe</i> won the 2002 Giller Prize. Clarke is a member of the Order of Canada, holds four honorary doctorates, and has been awarded the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, the W.O. Mitchell Prize, the Casa de las Américas Prize, and the Martin Luther King Jr. Award for Excellence in Writing, among others. In his fifty-year career he has worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington D.C. He lives in Toronto.
<ul>
<li>A breathtakingly comprehensive memoir by one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, spanning six decades and involving Malcolm X, Norman Mailer, Louis Armstrong, Chinua Achebe, LeRoi Jones, and Queen Elizabeth II, among others</li>
<li>'<i>Membering</i> stands apart in being the most comprehensive and widely spanning memoir that Clarke has written to date</li>
<li>Previous memoirs by the author have garnered praise in the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, and the <i>Globe and Mail</i></li>
<li>Austin Clarke, 80 years old, has won numerous awards, including the Giller Prize, Trillium Prize, and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for <i>The Polished Hoe</i></li>
<li>On top of his massive literary achievements, Clarke served at the Barbadian embassy in Washington, D.C., ran as a PC candidate in Ontario's '77 election, and was on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada from 1988 to 1993</li>
<li>Clarke's life story is interwoven with thoughtful, timely, and searing meditations on race</li>
</ul>
<li>A breathtakingly comprehensive memoir by one of Canada’s most celebrated writers, spanning six decades and involving Malcolm X, Norman Mailer, Louis Armstrong, Chinua Achebe, LeRoi Jones, and Queen Elizabeth II, among others</li>
<li>'<i>Membering</i> stands apart in being the most comprehensive and widely spanning memoir that Clarke has written to date</li>
<li>Previous memoirs by the author have garnered praise in the <i>New York Times</i>, <i>Publishers Weekly</i>, and the <i>Globe and Mail</i></li>
<li>Austin Clarke, 80 years old, has won numerous awards, including the Giller Prize, Trillium Prize, and Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for <i>The Polished Hoe</i></li>
<li>On top of his massive literary achievements, Clarke served at the Barbadian embassy in Washington, D.C., ran as a PC candidate in Ontario's '77 election, and was on the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada from 1988 to 1993</li>
<li>Clarke's life story is interwoven with thoughtful, timely, and searing meditations on race</li>
</ul>
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