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Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 407
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Sunday, September 24, 2006 - 10:59 am: | 
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Colin Channer is a smart and charismatic Brother. He does a lot in promoting what is go about our literarture (that is author from Africa and throughout the diaspora).
His interview is chock full of information about excellent authors that we do not read about in the media and, in general, do not speak about enough.
Read the interview: http://aalbc.com/authors/colin_channer_interview.htm
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Libralind2
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Username: Libralind2
Post Number: 377
Registered: 09-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, September 25, 2006 - 05:57 pm: |
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Nice thanks Troy.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 5241
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, September 26, 2006 - 04:21 pm: |
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ditto, Li-Li. |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 412
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, September 27, 2006 - 09:27 pm: |
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Yeah Libralind2 and Cynique Robert did a good job with this interview.
Colin mentions a bunch of authors throughout the African Diaspora that are also winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature:
Toni Cade Bambara, Rita Dove, Alice Walker, Gwendolyn Brooks, August Wilson, James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. Derek Walcott (St. Lucia), Wole Soyinka (Nigeria), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia), V.S. Naipaul (Trinidad & Tobago), Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt), Nadine Gordimer (South Africa), J.M. Coetzee (South Africa), Octavio Paz (Mexico), Rabindranth Tagore (India), Pablo Neruda (Chile), and Saint-John Perse (Guadeloupe).
After reading this interview I realized that I must do a better job of getting infromation about these authors and others like them on AALBC.com.
Peace
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Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1324
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 09:37 am: |
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Great interview. I particularly agree with this:
Black Americans are working out their American anxiety while at the same time working out their peculiar anxieties about their status as American citizens, so their work is understandably dominated by a domestic focus, by localized concerns.
You know, all you have to do is live overseas for a while to see how "American" you really are as an African American! So we have baggage from the Black thing(s) as well as from the American thing(s). |
Yvettep
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Username: Yvettep
Post Number: 1325
Registered: 01-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 - 09:39 am: |
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And I loooooooved "Waiting in Vain." I'm happy he's doing stuff like this new collection, but I'm waiting (hopefully NOT in vain!) for another novel like that one! |
Troy
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Username: Troy
Post Number: 420
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, September 30, 2006 - 02:15 pm: |
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Yvettep, if you are in the NY City area you may want to check out the Up South Internation Book Festival Festival. Colin will be in attendance and you can ask him if you will be waiting in vain...
http://www.upsouthinternationalbookfestival.com/ |
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