{"product_id":"salvage-readings-from-the-wreck-paperback","title":"Salvage: Readings from the Wreck - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDionne Brand\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOne of \u003ci\u003eLiterary Hub\u003c\/i\u003e's most anticipated books of 2024. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eWinner of the 2025 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eFinalist for the 2025 Zora Awards. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDionne Brand \u003c\/b\u003eis the author of numerous volumes of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction. Her latest poetry collection, \u003ci\u003eNomenclature: New and Collected Poems\u003c\/i\u003e, won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Poetry. Her other collections have won the Griffin Poetry Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award, and the Trillium Book Award. Her works of nonfiction include \u003ci\u003eBread Out of Stone\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging\u003c\/i\u003e. From 2009 to 2012 she served as Toronto's poet laureate, and in 2021 she was awarded a Windham-Campbell Prize for Fiction. She lives in Toronto.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.62 x 8.19 x 5.16 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 27, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987438862637,"sku":"9781250397720","price":20.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/3185\/6429\/files\/DsvQ2Ej-lM9781250397720.webp?v=1776178708","url":"https:\/\/ishookbooks.com\/products\/salvage-readings-from-the-wreck-paperback","provider":"iShook Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}