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Author Mason-John, Valerie, author

Title I am still your negro : an homage to James Baldwin / Valerie Mason-John
Edition First electronic edition
Published Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : University of Alberta Press, 2020
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Description 1 online resource
Series A volume in the Robert Kroetsch Series
Robert Kroetsch series.
Contents #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 -- Man-ifestation -- A Wake -- Forget and Pretend -- Again Becoming -- Farewell My Fiend -- Yaata's Epilogue -- Acknowledgements -- About the Author -- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press
Summary "Valerie Mason-John's poetry collection, I Am Still Your Negro, blends spoken word and hashtags with villanelles, sonnets, and haiku to traverse the African Diaspora experience through place, time, and circumstance. Blak Inglis street vernacular, the cadence of enslaved people in the Americas, patois and creole join the enduring spirit voice of Yaata, Supreme Being of the Kona people, to reveal narratives of liberation, entrapment, sexual assault, eating disorders, and rave culture. An emotive critique of colonization's bitter legacy, this collection will draw audiences of the spoken word genre and poetry readers who wish to broaden their knowledge about contemporary social justice issues."-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Africans
Social justice
Notes Poems
Online resource; title from PDF version (Library and Archives Canada Electronic Collection, viewed August 5, 2020)
Subject Social justice -- Poetry
Africans -- Poetry
POETRY / Canadian.
Africans
Social justice
Genre/Form Electronic books
poetry.
Poetry
Poetry.
Poésie.
Form Electronic book
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