And I alone escaped to tell you / Sylvia D. Hamilton.
And I alone escaped to tell you / Sylvia D. Hamilton.
By
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Hamilton, Sylvia, 1950-
Publication Date
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2014
Publication Information
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Kentville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press,
Physical Description
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94 p.
Subject Term
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Canadian poetry -- Black authors.
Canadian poetry -- Women authors.
Canadian poetry -- 21st century.
Summary
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The settlement of African peoples in Nova Scotia is a richly layered story encompassing many waves of settlement and diverse circumstances -- from captives to 'freedom runners' who sailed north from the United States with hopes of establishing a new life. The poems in And I Alone Escaped to Tell You endeavour to give these historical events a human voice, blending documentary material, memory, experience and imagination to evoke the lives of these early Black Nova Scotians and of the generations that followed. This collection is a moving meditation on the place of African-descended people in the Canadian story and on the threads connecting all of us to the African diaspora. Sylvia D. Hamilton is a filmmaker (including the films: Black mother, black daughter; Speak it! : from the heart of black Nova Scotia; and Hymn to freedom. Against the tides : the Jones family) and writer whose awards include a Gemini and the Portia White Prize. Her poetry has been published in The Dalhousie Review, West Coast Line, The Great Black North and Untying the Apron: Daughters Remember Mothers of the Fifties. She was a contributor to, and co-editor of, We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays In African Canadian Women’s History. She lives in Grand Pre, Nova Scotia.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781554471362
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 819.1 H36 | Checked In |