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Why We Write

Why We Write

by H. Nigel Thomas

2006Canadian literature, history and criticismBlacks in literatureCanadian literatureInterviewsBlack authors
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"In this volume of interviews with H. Nigel Thomas, fifteen leading African Canadian writers discuss the complexities of the writing experience and reveal their thoughts on their creative process. Identifying how their social and geographical origins have influenced their work, these poets and fiction writers also respond to the exigencies of craft, the manipulations of publishers, the criticism of readers, and the absence of a clearly identifiable market for their works. This book, therefore, provides valuable insights both on individual creativity and on the politics of cultural production in a multicultural society."--BOOK JACKET.

Themes & subjects

Canadian literature, history and criticismBlacks in literatureCanadian literatureInterviewsBlack authorsHistory and criticism
First published 2006

About the author

H. Nigel Thomas

1947

Author

H. Nigel Thomas

First published

2006

Pages

244

Read time

≈ 6h

Editions

3

Language

English

Publisher

TSAR Publications

ISBN

9781894770347

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