Tag Archives: Mexico
Ishmael Reed’s Canada: black, Jewish, indigenous
February 20, 2013 Ishmael Reed isn’t into tragedy, so Flight to Canada is funny about the African-American presence up North. Raven Quickskill is there of course, having flown in “non-stop/ Jumbo jet this A.M. Had Champagne/ Compliments of the Cap’n/ … Continue reading
Posted in African-American literature, Black-Jewish alliances, Canada, Climate change, Environmentalism, Ethnicity, indigenous communities, planet, slavery, Twentieth century literature, Uncategorized
Tagged Al Gore., Czar Nicholas, Flight to Canada, Inuit Circumpolar Council, ishmael Reed, Keystone Pipeline, Mexico, Nobel Peace Prize, Rachel Adams, Sheila Watt-Cloutier, underground railroad, Washington D.C.
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Audre Lorde in Mexico, Maya Angelou in Ghana
September 26, 2012 2012 marks the twentieth anniversary of the death of Audre Lorde. She had died at the age of 58, after 14 years of battling with breast cancer. But even before that, Lorde had always seemed associated with … Continue reading
Posted in Africa, African-American literature, Americas, Autobiography, Ethnicity, Genre, Global South, Latin America, mexico, Race, Twentieth century literature, Universities, world literature
Tagged All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, Audre Lorde, biomythography, Ghana, Maya Angelou, Mexico, National University of Mexico, The Marvelous Arithmetics of Distance, Zami
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