'Membering
Published on 15. August 2015
592 pages
978-1-4597-3036-6 (ISBN)
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2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature - Longlisted
2016 RBC Taylor Prize - Longlisted
The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "Canada's first multicultural writer."
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 'Membering, 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.
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.
2016 RBC Taylor Prize - Longlisted
The unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "Canada's first multicultural writer."
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 'Membering, 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.
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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Austin Clarke (1934 - 2016) was one of Canada's foremost authors, whose work includes ten novels, six short-story collections, three memoirs, and two collections of poetry. He worked as a journalist, a professor, and a cultural attaché in Washington D.C., while publishing acclaimed fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Content
1 The Little Black Englishmen
2 The Court Martial
3 Toranno!... Toranno!... Toranno!...
4 1960s Toronto
5 The CBC Stagehand
6 ÜJesus Christ, boy! You is a running-fool, a race horse!Ý
7 Christmas, 1960
8 Timmins and Kirkland Lake
9 Looking for "Colour"
10 Harlem, 1963
11 Looking for Brother James and Brother Malcolm
12 Aftermath
13 Election Campaign, 1977
14 Georgia on My Mind
15 A Walk from Asquith Avenue
16 Mother's Precepts and Commandments
17 The Green Door House
18 "Invisibility"
19 The Culture of Chains
20 Allies
21 Audience with the Queen
22 The "Loyalty of Negritude" in Sport
23 "A Writer's Life"
24 Power Games
25 Yale
26 Aquarius
27 The Old Boy
28 Home
Epilogue
Afterword
Credits
2 The Court Martial
3 Toranno!... Toranno!... Toranno!...
4 1960s Toronto
5 The CBC Stagehand
6 ÜJesus Christ, boy! You is a running-fool, a race horse!Ý
7 Christmas, 1960
8 Timmins and Kirkland Lake
9 Looking for "Colour"
10 Harlem, 1963
11 Looking for Brother James and Brother Malcolm
12 Aftermath
13 Election Campaign, 1977
14 Georgia on My Mind
15 A Walk from Asquith Avenue
16 Mother's Precepts and Commandments
17 The Green Door House
18 "Invisibility"
19 The Culture of Chains
20 Allies
21 Audience with the Queen
22 The "Loyalty of Negritude" in Sport
23 "A Writer's Life"
24 Power Games
25 Yale
26 Aquarius
27 The Old Boy
28 Home
Epilogue
Afterword
Credits
