The Resource After Canaan: : essays on race, writing, and region, Wayde Compton
After Canaan: : essays on race, writing, and region, Wayde Compton
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The item After Canaan: : essays on race, writing, and region, Wayde Compton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
Resource Information
The item After Canaan: : essays on race, writing, and region, Wayde Compton represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from all library branches.
- Summary
- After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed African Canadian poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. Written from the perspective of someone who was born and lives outside of African American culture, it riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or "Canaan") encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (also known as "passing"), the failure of urban renewal, humor as a counterweight to "official" multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself. Compton marks the passing of old modes of antiracism and multiculturalism, and points toward what may or may not be a "post-racial" future, but will without doubt be a brave new world of cultural perception. After Canaan is a brilliant and thoughtful consideration of African (North) American culture as it attempts to redefine itself in the Obama era
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Isbn
- 9781551523873
- Label
- After Canaan: : essays on race, writing, and region
- Title
- After Canaan:
- Title remainder
- essays on race, writing, and region
- Statement of responsibility
- Wayde Compton
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- After Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed African Canadian poet Wayde Compton, repositions the North American discussion of race in the wake of the tumultuous twentieth century. Written from the perspective of someone who was born and lives outside of African American culture, it riffs on the concept of Canada as a promised land (or "Canaan") encoded in African American myth and song since the days of slavery. These varied essays, steeped in a kind of history rarely written about, explore the language of racial misrecognition (also known as "passing"), the failure of urban renewal, humor as a counterweight to "official" multiculturalism, the poetics of hip hop turntablism, and the impact of the Obama phenomenon on the way we speak about race itself. Compton marks the passing of old modes of antiracism and multiculturalism, and points toward what may or may not be a "post-racial" future, but will without doubt be a brave new world of cultural perception. After Canaan is a brilliant and thoughtful consideration of African (North) American culture as it attempts to redefine itself in the Obama era
- Cataloging source
- Midwest
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- hoopla (Digital media service)
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1972-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Compton, Wayde
- Dewey number
- 305.800971
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Post-racialism
- Multiculturalism
- Race in literature
- Canada
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- After Canaan: : essays on race, writing, and region, Wayde Compton
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- online resource
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- multicolored
- Content category
- text
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT11856103
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
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- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781551523873
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
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- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11856103
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11856103
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Label
- After Canaan: : essays on race, writing, and region, Wayde Compton
- Link
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier.
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent.
- Control code
- MWT11856103
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource.
- Form of item
-
- online
- electronic
- Governing access note
- Digital content provided by hoopla
- Isbn
- 9781551523873
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia.
- Media type code
-
- c
- Publisher number
- MWT11856103
- Specific material designation
- remote
- Stock number
- 11856103
- System details
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
Library Locations
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