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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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781459730342 9781459730359
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- PR9199.3.C526
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- Z49 2015eb
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- 1 electronic text (490 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Copyright 5
- Contents 12
- CHAPTER ONE 14
- CHAPTER TWO 38
- CHAPTER THREE 53
- CHAPTER FOUR 70
- CHAPTER FIVE 99
- CHAPTER SIX 113
- CHAPTER SEVEN 122
- CHAPTER EIGHT 127
- CHAPTER NINE 149
- CHAPTER TEN 154
- CHAPTER ELEVEN 165
- CHAPTER TWELVE 198
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN 212
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN 220
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN 232
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN 244
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN 252
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN 264
- CHAPTER NINETEEN 277
- CHAPTER TWENTY 286
- CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE 299
- CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO 325
- CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 339
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR 368
- CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE 380
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX 440
- CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN 454
- CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT 484
- Afterword 492
- Credits 494
