Paperback, 198 pages
English language
Published April 25, 2023 by Vintage Canada.
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- 978-1-0390-0549-5
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When Dionne Brand's acclaimed first novel, the New York Times Notable Book In Another Place, Not Here, was published in 1998, it cemented her place as one of the most revered figures in Canadian literature. But Brand's fiction debut had occurred a decade earlier, in 1988, with the publication of a transcendent and extraordinary collection, Sans Souci and Other Stories. The eleven stories in its pages breathe life and language into the lives of women in the Caribbean and the Black diaspora, often dealing with the process—and aftermath—of transit and arrival. Brand's fiction dissects sexual violence, racial prejudice, and war, while attending to the full spectrum of experiences of those who live in the shadow of a shared colonial past-experiences encompassing both joy and sorrow, release and constraint. Now available for the first time in more than a decade, Sans Souci and Other Stories is a foundational work from one …
When Dionne Brand's acclaimed first novel, the New York Times Notable Book In Another Place, Not Here, was published in 1998, it cemented her place as one of the most revered figures in Canadian literature. But Brand's fiction debut had occurred a decade earlier, in 1988, with the publication of a transcendent and extraordinary collection, Sans Souci and Other Stories. The eleven stories in its pages breathe life and language into the lives of women in the Caribbean and the Black diaspora, often dealing with the process—and aftermath—of transit and arrival. Brand's fiction dissects sexual violence, racial prejudice, and war, while attending to the full spectrum of experiences of those who live in the shadow of a shared colonial past-experiences encompassing both joy and sorrow, release and constraint. Now available for the first time in more than a decade, Sans Souci and Other Stories is a foundational work from one of our most cherished literary artists and thinkers.