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My name is why : a memoir
At the age of 17, after a childhood in a fostered family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian. And he learned that his mother had been pleading for his safe return to her since his birth. This is Lemn's story; a story of neglect and determination, misfortune and hope, cruelty and triumph. Sissay reflects on a childhood in care, self-expression and Britishness, and in doing so explores the institutional care system, race, family and the meaning of home. Written with all the lyricism and power you would expect from one of the nation's best-loved poets, this moving, frank and timely memoir is the result of a life spent asking questions, and a celebration of the redemptive power of creativity.
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Mayaya Rising
Who are the Black heroines of Latin America and the Caribbean? Where do we turn for models of transcendence among women of African ancestry in the region? In answer to the historical dearth of such exemplars, Mayaya Rising explores and celebrates the work of writers who intentionally center powerful female cultural archetypes. In this inventive analysis, Duke proposes three case studies and a corresponding womanist methodology through which to study and rediscover these figures. The musical Cuban-Dominican sisters and former slaves Teodora and Micaela Ginés inspired Aida Cartagena Portalatin's epic poem Yania tierra; the Nicaraguan matriarch of the May Pole, \"Miss Lizzie,\" figures prominently in four anthologies from the country's Bluefields region; and the iconic palenqueras of Cartagena, Colombia are magnified in the work of poets María Teresa Ramírez Neiva and Mirian Díaz Pérez. In elevating these figures and foregrounding these works, Duke restores and repairs the scholarly record.
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The epic of Juan Latino : dilemmas of race and religion in Renaissance Spain
\"In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto, Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria). Piecing together the surviving evidence, Wright traces Latino's life in Granada, Iberia's last Muslim metropolis, from his early clandestine education as a slave in a noble household to his distinguished career as a schoolmaster at the University of Granada. When intensifying racial discrimination and the chaos of the Morisco Revolt threatened Latino's hard-won status, he set out to secure his position by publishing an epic poem in Latin verse, the Austrias Carmen, that would demonstrate his mastery of Europe's international literary language and celebrate his own African heritage. Through Latino's remarkable, hitherto untold story, Wright illuminates the racial and religious tensions of sixteenth-century Spain and the position of black Africans within Spain's nascent empire and within the emerging African diaspora.\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Epic of Juan Latino
In The Epic of Juan Latino, Elizabeth R. Wright tells the story of Renaissance Europe's first black poet and his epic poem on the naval battle of Lepanto,Austrias Carmen (The Song of John of Austria).
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Cesaire, le prix de la liberté
Aimé Césaire, né en 1913 à Basse-Pointe, rejoint Paris dans l'entre-deux-guerres pour y faire ses études. C'est à cette époque que le jeune Antillais comprend l'importance de parler d'une conscience noire et d'un nationalisme culturel qui unit les hommes. Puis l'écrivain, inventeur du concept de négritude, rejoint son île aux prémices du conflit mondial pour y enseigner les lettres. A la fin de la guerre, porté par l'espoir d'un changement, Césaire, fervent anticolonialiste, est happé par la politique et devient député du Parti communiste avant de fonder le Parti progressiste martiniquais (PPM). Il conservera son mandat jusqu'en 1993. A travers des séquences de fiction et des images d'archives, retour sur le parcours paradoxal de Césaire, entre l'engagement visionnaire humaniste du poète et le combat difficile du politicien. \"Un film personnel, écrit et réalisé avec conviction.\" (TELERAMA).
Aimé Césaire, born in 1913 in Basse-Pointe, joined Paris in the inter-war period to study there. It was at this time that the young West Indian understood the importance of talking about a black conscience and a cultural nationalism that united men. Then the writer, inventor of the concept of blackness, joined his island at the beginnings of the world conflict to teach letters. At the end of the war, carried by the hope of a change, Césaire, fervent anti-colonialist, is caught up in politics and becomes deputy of the Communist Party before founding the Progressive Party of Martinique (PPM). He will retain his mandate until 1993. Through fiction sequences and archive footage, we return to the paradoxical journey of Césaire, between the humanist visionary commitment of the poet and the difficult battle of the politician. \"A personal film, written and produced with conviction.\" (TELERAMA).
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One crazy summer
In the summer of 1968, after traveling from Brooklyn to Oakland, California to spend a month with the mother they barely know, eleven-year-old Delphine and her two younger sisters arrive to a cold welcome as they discover that their mother, a dedicated poet and printer, is resentful of the intrusion of their visit and wants them to attend a nearby Black Panther summer camp.
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Benjamin Zephaniah : to do wid me
To Do Wid Me is a film portrait of Benjamin Zephaniah by Pamela Robertson-Pearce, drawing on both live performances and informal interviews. It shows him performing his poetry for different audiences and talking about his work, life, beliefs and much else. You see him live on stage at Ledbury Poetry Festival, Newcastle's Live Theatre, Hexham's Queen's Hall and Brunel University, and engaging with school children at Keats House in London, where he was writer-in-residence.
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August Wilson : a life
\"The first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwright of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him\"-- Provided by publisher.
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