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Into and Out of Dislocationby C. S. Giscombe
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Book DescriptionNorth Point Press. Used - Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. 100% Money Back Guarantee. Shipped to over one million happy customers! Support Literacy! 9998888060008 Book summaryCrossing the border between the United States and Canada may seem inconsequential to most: the landscape doesn't change, the language is the same. But for the author of this memoir, crossing into Canada took on a real charge of excitement, focusing attention on race, national identity, and his own past as he follows the path of a 19th-century Jamaican explorer of Canada who shares his name and may or may not share his heritage.Media Reviews"Giscombe’s is poetic, meditative prose of the most accessible and pleasurable sort, and he reveals the eye and ear of a poet at every step as he pries into the landscape and language of desire." -- Samizdat Publisher NotesA thought-provoking meditation on the connections between landscape, race, and family. It was on his third or fourth trip there that the poet C. S. Giscombe grew aware of the space Canada had staked out in his imagination. Giscombe later spent a winter with his family in British Columbia, and his time there provides a lens through which he interrogates his preoccupation with Canada's otherness. Giscombe writes that "border crossings are always sexy. And racial." And so this book is filled with both actual and metaphoric exploration-his travels serve as points of departure for a series of riffs on racial, national, physical, and psychological borders. At the heart of this book is the author's ambivalent pursuit of John Robert Giscome, a man who may or may not be a relative. John R., as Giscombe calls him, was a black Jamaican explorer who flourished in British Columbia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Giscombe documents the places that John R. passed through, and he uncovers stories about mining, pioneer life, and even cannibalism. Giscombe likes to imagine John R. as a "self-aware outsider," and that symbolic status comes to seem more important-and more interesting-than any historical truth. Into and Out of Dislocation is an intriguing and wryly told travel memoir by a writer Henry Louis Gates called a "major figure in contemporary African American letters." It was on his third or fourth trip there that the poet C. S. Giscombe grew aware of the space Canada had staked out in his imagination. Giscombe later spent a winter with his family in British Columbia, and his time there provides a tens through which he interrogates his preoccupation with Canada's otherness. Giscombe writes that "border crossings are always sexy. And racial." And so this book is filled with both actual and metaphoric exploration -- his travels serve as points of departure for a series of riffs on racial, national, physical, and psychological borders. At the heart of this book is the author's ambivalent pursuit of John Robert Giscombe, a man who may or may not be a relative. John R., as Giscombe calls him, was a black Jamaican explorer who flourished in British CoLumbia during the Last half of the nineteenth century. Giscombe documents the places that John R. passed through, and he uncovers stories about mining, pioneer life, and even cannibalism. Giscombe likes to imagine John R. as a "self-aware outsider, " and that symbolic status comes to seem more important -- and more interesting -- than any historical truth. Other Recommended Books
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