"Impossible Citizens" in the global city: Dionne Brand's discourses of resistance

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  • Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida

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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-8026.2009n56p119

Resumo

 

In both Thirsty (2002) and Inventory (2006), Dionne Brand's most recent collections of poems, the Caribbean-Canadian writer chooses to voice the dilemmas of our contemporary world, and in special the inhumanity of the global cities. The poetic voices in both collections take on the role of witnesses of this cosmopolitan world, criticizing the appalling conditions of living for some of the dispossessed and destitute subjects that live in the periphery of the global city. This work discusses how Brand addresses several ethical issues regarding the markedly global contemporary spaces that for the poet often negate most humans some form of belonging, and the means to attain agency.

Biografia do Autor

Sandra Regina Goulart Almeida

Sandra R. G. AlmeidaSandra R. G. Almeida Sandra R. G. AlmeidaSandra R. G. Almeida Sandra R. G. Almeida is Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literatures at the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil, and a fellow researcher from the Brazilian funding agencies, CNPq and FAPEMIG. Her fields of research are contemporary women writers, feminist literary criticism, Brazilian and Canadian Literatures. She has edited and co-edited several books, including: The Art of Elizabeth Bishop  (2002), Gênero e Representação em Literaturas de Língua Inglesa (2002), Gender Studies and Feminist Perspectives (2003), Transnational Perspectives Brazil-Canadá (2005) and BrasilCanadá: Olhares Diversos (2006), Universidade: Cooperação Internacional e Diversidade (2006), New Challenges in Language and Literature (2009). She is currently working on a book on contemporary women writers and diaspora.

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Publicado

2009-01-01

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n. 56 (2009)

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