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Into and Out of Dislocation
by C. S. Giscombe
ISBN: 0865475415
ISBN-13: 9780865475410
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
Crossing 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.
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"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
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published date: 2000
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6 x 8.5 inches
Weight: 1.2 pounds
Pages: 343
Publisher's Notes
A 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."
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Into and Out of Dislocation
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New York: North Point Press, 2000. FIRST PRINTING of the First Edition (stated). The poet-author meditates on racial, national, physical, and psychological borders, giving particular attention to John Robert Giscome, a Jamaican explorer who 'flourished' in British Columbia in the late 19th century. Author relates numerous tales of B.C. history re mining, pioneer life, even cannibalism. Hardcover with dust jacket, 343pp. A very nice copy, the jacket neatly encased in an acid-free Brodart plastic protector. Rare.. ISBN: 0-86547-541-5. First Edition (stated). Hard Cover. Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Canada, Canadian History, British Columbia, Mining, Mines, Cannibalism, Pioneers, Jamaica. ( more information)
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