‘Other’ voices in Canadá: no Language is Neutral and other poems of Dionne Brand
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0383.2012v33n2p193Keywords:
Multiculturalism, Canada. Hyphen. Poetry.Abstract
This work aims the analysis of some of Dionne Brand’s poems. Caribbean and an immigrant in Canada, Brand discusses social polemics issues, such as racism, sexuality, feminism, and marginalization. Thus, we selected some texts to analyze its content and verify if these problems are reflected in her speech as a writer. Considering that Brand is black, immigrant and woman, her poetry reflects a hyphenated position, it express in its content relation to Caribbean, in her style and language that evolves the ‘demotic’ used as resistance ways for many oppressions that Caribbean immigrants still suffer in Canada, country which has adopted the multiculturalism politics.
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