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Title: |
I Am Still Your Negro |
| Sub-title: |
An Homage to James Baldwin |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Valerie Mason-John |
| ISBN10-13: |
1772125105 : 9781772125108 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
228x133x6mm |
| Pages: |
120 |
| Weight: |
.156 Kg. |
| Published: |
University of Alberta Press - January 2020 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 24 |
| Subjects: |
Poetry : Poetry by individual poets : Black & Asian studies |
| Social Justice Poetry Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story of a stowaway on the Windrush, from racism and sexism in Trumpâ s America to the wide impact of the Me Too movement. Stories of entrapment, sexual assault, addictive behaviours, and rave culture are told and contrasted to the strengthening and forthright voice of Yaata, Supreme Being. I Am Still Your Negro is truth that needs to be told, re-told, and remembered. Foreword by George Elliott Clarke. I was your Negro Captured and sold I am still your negro Arrested and killed â from â I Am Still Your Negroâ |
| Table of Contents: |
| ix Foreword George Elliott Clarke xiii ID xvii Introduction #Undocumented Back a Yard My Father's Prayer Sticks and Stones #ThisIsAfricanDiaspora Yaata's Lament The Ghost of Thomas Peters I Am Africa African Feet The Windrush I Am Still Your Negro Another One Bites the Dust #MeToo Yaata's Yowl Business Golden Virginia The Villain The Perfect Road The Couplet #MeToo Playing Dead #IfMyPlantsCouldSpeak Yaata's Groan Yellowknife The Binge The VindaLoo Anorectic #Swag Yaata's Manifesto The Front Line Sixty Seconds Stalk Time Mothercare #RaveScene Yaata's Rap Essentials for Heaven Cinders Time My First Half Class A #Intersectionality Yaata's Prophecy Self Portrait 1: The Colour of My Skin Self Portrait 2: Call Me My Name Mani-Festation A Wake Forget and Pretend Again Becoming Farewell My Fiend Yaata's Epilogue Acknowledgements |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, League of Canadian Poets
2021
Canada
Short-listed
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Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, BC and Yukon Book Prizes, West Coast Book Prize Society
2021
Canada
Short-listed
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AUPresses Book, Jacket, & Journal Show - Poetry and Literature
2021
United States
Winner
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| Reviews: |
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"[T]he wide range of Mason-John's vision ... traverses history, geography, and culture.... [Her poetry] is significant for its reappraisal of our collective past, which so often overlooks or writes over marginalized voices and experiences. [Mason-John is] explicit in calling out a hypocritical Canadian multiculturalism that pays lip service to inclusion while simultaneously entrenching systemic biases and processes that maintain a racist and exclusionary status quo." [Full review at https://quillandquire.com/review/the-response-of-weeds-a-misplacement-of-black-poetry-on-the-prairies/ ] -- Steven W. Beattie -- Quill & Quire, 20200420
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"This poetry collection grabs you... Readers are confronted with the violence of the Black experience, from the haunting spectre of slavery to the current and ongoing terrorizing of the Black diaspora at the hands of the police. All of the messy, the painful, the enraging -- what we're conditioned to believe as shameful -- is laid bare for the readers and brought to the fore. Many of these accounts traverse various places -- whether in the U.K., the U.S., or Canada -- and the bluntness and force of her words arrest you." [Full article at https://vancouversun.com/entertainment/books/book-review-i-am-still-your-negro-by-valerie-mason-john] -- Junie Desil, Vancouver Sun -- 20200831
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Included on CBC Books's list of top Canadian poetry of the year in December 2020.
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"The topics range from slavery and colonization to global politics and historical realities, addressing the racialized and gendered intersections of African identity, diaspora, and ancestry.... Mason-John's poetry sheds light on these harsh realities through personal and vulnerable narratives. Their writing also offers hope for our futures by reminding readers of our collective reservoir of power, resilience, and creativity. With these tools in our hands and our ancestors beside us, we may still be negros, but we ain't silent about it no more." [Full article at https://arrow-journal.org/language-and-personal-narrative-in-revolutionary-poetry/] -- shah noor hussein -- The Arrow, 20201104
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