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BIO NOTE
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LIFE
Born 1953 in Guayaguayare, Trinidad and Tobago, Dionne Brand emigrated to Canada in 1970. Her grandparents play a significant role in her upbringing while her mother worked in England, but enrolled at the University of Toronto almost immediately, completing a BA in English and Philosophy in 1975, and acquiring an MA at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education fourteen years later. In the early stages of her career Brand worked at the Toronto Immigrant Women’s Centre as a counselor and picked up a number of temporary academic positions with geographical diversity, but ultimately beginning and returning to University of Guelph where she currently holds a University Research Chair and teaches. Recently Brand was named the poetry editor for McClelland & Stewart, carrying forward from her work editing anthologies early in her career and editor for Brick, a Toronto-based literary journal. Recipient of multiple prestigious literary awards for poetry and fiction alike, including the Governor General’s (1997) Award for Poetry and the Griffin Poetry Prize (2011), she was inducted into the Order of Canada in 2017. Her writing across boundaries of form and content, confronting profound and pertinent socio-political issues with her writing that is as much incisive criticism towards structural and social injustice, as florid style and tender humanity. In addition to her fiction and poetry, Brand is an activist and founder of the newspaper Our Lives, a previous chair of the Women’s Issues Committee of the Ontario Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, and a documentarian and filmmaker – working through the late eighties to nineties with the National Film Board of Canada.
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AWARDS2014
Received Writers Guild of Alberta’s Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement2012
Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal (Awarded)
Inducted into City of Edmonton Arts and Culture Hall of Fame
Received Wilfrid Eggleston Award for Intersecting Sets, A Poet Looks at Science2011
National Magazine Award Gold Medal for “The Ultraviolet Catastrophe” (Won)
Received Stephan G. Stephansson Award, Writers Guild of Alberta for Memory’s Daughter
Shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award for Memory’s Daughter2010
ATCO Gas Award for Lifetime Achievement (Won)2009
Received Pat Lowther Memorial Award for The Office Tower Tales
Received Alberta Book Publishers Association Trade Book of the Year (Fiction) for The Office Tower Tales
Shortlisted for City of Edmonton Book Prize for The Office Tower Tales2007
Shortlisted for Stephan G. Stephansson Award, Writers Guild of Alberta for The Occupied World2005
Anointed City of Edmonton’s First Poet Laureate2004
Won Poetics of Space Competition, CV2 for “Poetry Under the Influence of Time.”2002
Shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award (National Award for Best Book of Poetry by a Canadian Woman) for Some Bones and a Story2001
Won Malahat Review Long Poem Competition2000
Robert Kroetsch City of Edmonton Book Prize for Tales of an Urban Sky (Shortlisted)
Shortlisted for Stephan G. Staphansson Award, Writers Guild of Alberta for Tales for an Urban Sky1999
Received Poets Corner Award for Tales for an Urban Sky
Shortlisted for City of Edmonton Book Prize for Lattice of the Years1998
Won Shaun T. Basmajian Chapbook Competition for Scenes from the Sugar Bowl Café1988
Received Alberta Writing for Youth Competition for The Chinese Mirror
Finalist for Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for The Chinese Mirror
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PRIMARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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DOCUMENTARIESOlder, Stronger, Wiser (Part I, Women at the Well trilogy). Directed by Dionne Brand. National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1989.Sisters in the Struggle (Part II, Women at the Well trilogy. Directed by Dionne Brand and Ginny Stikeman. National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1991.Long Time Comin’ (Part III, Women at the Well trilogy). Directed by Dionne Brand. Performances by Faith Nolan and Grace Channer. National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1991.Listening for Something: Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation. Directed by Dionne Brand. National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1996.Beyond Borders: Arab Feminists Talk About Their Lives‚Äö√ÑEast and West. Directed by Jennifer Kawaja, Narrated by Dionne Brand. National Film Board of Canada, 1999.Under One Sky: Arab Women in North America Talk About the Hijab. Directed by Jennifer Kawaja, Narrated by Dionne Brand. National Film Board of Canada, 1999.Borderless: A Docu-Drama About the Lives of Undocumented Workers. Directed by Min Sook Lee, Narrated by Dionne Brand. KAIROS Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, 2006.
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EXCERPTSBrand, Dionne. “The Language of Resistance.”Books in Canada, Vol. 19, No. 7, 1990, pp. 13-16Brand, Dionne. “From The Malahat Review (1992).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 242-244.Brand, Dionne. “From No Language is Neutral (1990).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 237-242.Brand, Dionne. “From Sans Souci and Other Stories (1988).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 228-237.Brand, Dionne. “From Chronicles of the Hostile Sun (1984).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 210-211.Brand, Dionne. “From Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia (1983).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 203-209.Brand, Dionne. “From Winter Epigrams (1983).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 197-203.Brand, Dionne. “From Primitive Offensive (1982).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 184-196.Brand, Dionne. “From ‘Fore Day Morning (1978).”Grammar of Dissent, ed. by Carol Morrel. Goose Lane Editions, 1994, pp. 171-183.Brand, Dionne. “Dionne Brand excerpted fromIn Another Place, Not Here.”No Margins: Writing Canadian Fiction in Lesbian, 2006, pp. 33-45.Brand, Dionne. “From Versos.”Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 90, pp. 22-34, 2013.Brand, Dionne. “Ossuary VIII.”Callaloo, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2014, pp. 7-9.Brand, Dionne. “Ossuary I.”Callaloo, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2014, pp/ 1-6.Brand, Dionne. “An Ars Poetic from The Blue Clerk.”Black Scholar, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2017, pp. 58-77.Brand, Dionne. “Excerpts from The Blue Clerk.”Transition, No. 124, 2017, pp. 38-44.Brand, Dionne. “An Ars Poetica fromThe Blue Clerk.” Black Scholar, Vol. 47, No. 1, 2017, pp. 58-77.
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LONG FICTIONBrand, Dionne. In Another Place, Not Here. Vintage Canada, 1997.Brand, Dionne. At the Full and Change of the Moon. Vintage Canada, 2000.Brand, Dionne. What We All Long For. Vintage Canada, 2005.Brand, Dionne. Love Enough. Vintage Canada, 2015.Brand, Dionne. Theory. Knopf Canada, 2018.
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LONG HYBRIDBrand, Dionne. No Burden to Carry: Narratives of Black Working Women in Ontario 1920s to 1950s. Women’s Press, 1991.Brand, Dionne. The Blue Clerk: Ars Poetica in 59 Versos. McClelland & Stewart, 2018.
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LONG NON-FICTIONBrand, Dionne and Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta. Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism. Cross Cultural Communication Centre, Toronto, 1986.Brand, Dionne. A Map to the Door of No Return. Vintage Canada, 2002.Brand, Dionne. A Kind of Perfect Speech. Institute for Coastal Research, Nanaimo, 2008.Brand, Dionne. Bread Out of Stone: Recollections on Sex, Recognitions, Race, Dreaming and Politics. Vintage Canada, 2014.
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POETRYBrand, Dionne. ’Fore Day Morning: Poems. Khoisan Artists, Toronto, 1978.Brand, Dionne. Primitive Offensive. Williams-Wallace International, Toronto, 1982.Brand, Dionne. Winter Epigrams: & Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defense of Claudia. Williams-Wallace International, Toronto, 1983.Brand, Dionne. Chronicles of the Hostile Sun. Williams-Wallace, Toronto, 1984.Brand, Dionne and Veronica Sullivan (illustrator). Earth Magic: Poetry for Young People. Sister Vision Press, Toronto, 1993.Brand, Dionne. Land to Light On. McClelland & Stewart, 1997.Brand, Dionne. No Language is Neutral. McClelland & Stewart, 1998.Brand, Dionne. Thirsty. McClelland & Stewart, 2002.Brand, Dionne. Inventory. McClelland & Stewart, 2006.Brand, Dionne. Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand, ed. by Leslie C. Sanders. Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, 2009.Brand, Dionne. Ossuaries. McClelland & Stewart, 2010.
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SHORT FICTIONBrand, Dionne. Sans Souci and Other Stories. Women’s Press, Toronto, 1994.
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SHORT NON-FICTIONBrand, Dionne. “‘We weren’t allowed to go into factory work until Hitler started the war’: The 1920s to the 1940s.”’We’re Rooted Here and they Can’t Pull Us Up’, ed. by Peggy Bristow. University of Toronto Press, 1994.
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SECONDARY BIBLIOGRAPHY
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BIOGRAPHIES/INTERVIEWS/PROFILESAhearn, Victoria. “Guelph Professor Wins Lucrative Poetry Prize.” The Guelph Mercury, July 3, 2011.Ahearn, Victoria. “With Thanks to Shakespeare; Toronto’s Dionne Brand Wins the World’s Richest Poetry Prize.”The Hamilton Spectator, June 4, 2011.Ansari, Sadiya. “‘Diverse from What?’: Dionne Brand on Art for All People.” The Globe and Mail, September 27, 2018.Brand, Dionne. Interview with Nav Nagra. Room Magazine, Date Unknown.Brand, Dionne and Barbara Thomas. “The Invasion of Grenada: An Eyewitness Account.” Interview with Paul Graham. Canadian Dimension, Vol. 18, 1984, pp. 27-31.Brand, Dionne. “In Conversation with Dionne Brand.” Interview with Lynette D’Anna. Prairie Fire, Vol. 17, No. 2, 1996, pp. 9-19.Brand, Dionne. “Unredeemed Grace: Eva Tihanyi Speaks with Dionne Brand.” Books in Canada, Vol. 26, No. 2, 1997, pp. 8-9.Brand, Dionne. “Listening for Something – Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in Conversation (Talking Women Series).” Visual Media, Vol. 9, No. 4, 1997, pp. 15-16.Brand, Dionne. “She’s a Wanderer: Dionne Brand has Returned Home to Toronto with a New Novel – and a New Outlook.” Interview with Suzanne Methot. Quill and Quire, Vol. 65, No. 4, 1999, p. 1.Brand, Dionne. “Dionne’s Brand of Writing.” Interview with Nuzhat Abbas. Herizons, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1999, pp. 18-22.Brand, Dionne. “At the Full and Change of CanLit: An Interview with Dionne Brand. (National Identity and Gender Politics).” Interview with Rinaldo Walcott and Leslie Sanders. Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 20, No. 2, 2000, pp. 22-26.Caldwell, Rebecca. “Artist’s Life: Dionne Brand Writing is like Trying to Solve a Puzzle.” Globe & Mail, Sept 22, 2001.Brand, Dionne. “Dionne Brand in Conversation.” Interview with Christian Olbey. Ariel, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2002, pp 87-102.Brand, Dionne. “Dionne Brand on Struggle and Community, Possibility and Poetry.” Interview with Pauline Butling. Poets Talk. University of Alberta Press, 2005, pp. 63-87.Brand, Dionne. “Writing It: Dionne Brand.” Interview with Beverley Daurio. Contemporary Literary Criticism, 2005.Brand, Dionne. “Life Lessons from Dionne Brand.”Canadian Living, Vol. 41, No. 11, 2016, pp. 16.Brand, Dionne. “Author Dionne Brand on Dealing with Race and Gender Inequality.” Intreview with Andrea Karr. Canadian Living, October 6, 2016.Brand, Dionne. “Walking Cities Project Pairs Dionne Brand with Edinburgh-based Poet Author to Explore the City.” Interview with Vahni Capildeo. YouTube, uploaded by British Council Canada, December 10, 2017.Brand, Dionne. “A Great Murmur of Voices: In Conversation with Dionne Brand.” Interview with Nuzhat Abbas. Herizons, Vol. 31, No. 3, pp.34-36, 2018.Brand, Dionne. “Dionne Brand Discusses New Releases The Blue Clerk and Theory.” Interview with Karen K. Tran.The Ontarion, September 20, 2018.Brand, Dionne. “Dionne Brand, Christina Sharpe, & David Chariandy in Conversation.” The Capilano Review, April 5, 2018.Brand, Dionne. “Theory and Practice.” Interview with Canisia Lubrin Quill & Quire, Vol. 84, No. 8, pp. 14-15, 2018.Carey, Barbara. “The Fragile, Fragile Promise of Humanity.” Toronto Star, August 8, 2021Cole, Susan G. “Dionne Brand Might be Toronto’s Busiest Author.” Now Toronto, September 11, 2018.Donnelly, Pat. “VS Naipaul’s Sexist Remark, Dionne Brand’s Griffin Poetry Prize Win.” Montreal Gazette, June 2, 2011.Dudek, Debra. “Dionne Brand.” Dictionary of Literary Biography, Publisher Unknown, 2007.Grams, Nellie. “Brand Recognition.”Herizons, Vol. 25, No. 1, 2011, pp. 6-7.Gavin, Adrienne E. “Brand, Dionne.”The Oxford Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature. Oxford University Press, 2006.Gumbs, Alexis. “Dionne Brand.” The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature, ed. by Michael A. Bucknor and Alison Donnell, Routledge, 2011.Hannon, Gerald. “The Lyrical Worker.” Toronto Life, Vol. 39, No. 2, 2005, p. 6.Manheim, James M. “Brand, Dionne 1953-.” Contemporary Black Biography, Vol. 32, 2002, pp. 21-23.Marchand, Philip. “Solitude of Country Living Fertile Ground for Writer; Dionne Brand Learns to Appreciate ‘Sense of Slippage Between the Real and Unreal.’” The Toronto Star, April 20, 1999.Martin, Sandra, “Being Dionne: Michael Ondaatje Says that in her New Book Dionne Brand has Written ‘the best poems I’ve read in a long time’.” Toronto Life, Vol. 31, No. 4, 1997, pp. 68-71.Noel-Tod, Jeremy. “Brand, Dionne.” The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry, 2 ed. Oxford University Press, 2013.Nurse, Donna Bailey. “Poetic Justice.”What’s a Black Critic to Do? 2003, pp. 69-72.Nurse, Donna Bailey. “Writer Packs Poetic Punch.” Globe & Mail, April 29, 1997, p. C1.Oliveira, Michael. “Dionne Brand Makes List for Poetry Prize; Acclaimed Poet has Confidence in the Form’s Longevity.” Waterloo Region Record, April 6, 2011.Renda, Emma. “Raising the Board.” Quill & Quire, Vol. 80, No. 5, 2014, p. 8.Samba, Mugoli. “Poet Dionne Brand Takes on Donald Trump and Jordan Peterson in Powerful Commencement Speech.” UC Observer, June 2018.Sanders, Leslie. “Brand, Dionne (1953-).” Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora. ABC-CLIO, 2008.Snodgrass, Mary Ellen. “Brand, Dionne.” Encyclopedia of Feminist Literature, Infobase Publishing, 2014.Stringer, Jenny. “Brand, Dionne (1953-).” The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English. Oxford University Press, 2005.Wagner, Vit. “Toronto’s Poet Laureate Wines $75,000 Griffin Prize.” The Toronto Star, June 2, 2011.White, Nancy J. “Fiction and Poetry Live in her Soul.” Toronto Star, September 25, 2014.AUTHOR UNKNOWN. “Brand, Dionne 1953-.” Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. No. 216, 2011, pp. 28-32.
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A MAP TO THE DOOR OF NO RETURNClarke, George Elliot. “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand (review).” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 72, No. 1, 2014, pp. 556-558.Hilderbrandt, Gloria. “A Door to No Past.” Books in Canada, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2001, p. 10.Johnston, Ingrid. “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. (Out in the World and Back at Home). (Book Review).” Resource Links, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2002, p. 56.Methot, Suzanne. “A Map to the Door of No Return.” Quill & Quire, Vol. 67, No. 8, 2001, p. 25.
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AT THE FULL AND CHANGE OF THE MOONAdams, Phoebe-Lou. “At the Full and the Change of Moon.” Atlantic, Vol. 284, No. 4, 1999, p. 114.Salamishah, Tillet. “At the Full and Change of the Moon Dionne Brand.” Callaloo, Vol. 26, No. 3, 2003, pp. 913-917.Woods, Paula L. “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors.” Los Angeles Times, November 7, 1999.
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THE BLUE CLERKChariandy, David. “The Blue Clerk.” Walrus, Vol. 16, No. 1, 2019, p. 28.Crowley, Alex. “Poetry.” Publishers Weekly, Vol. 265, No. 26, 2018, pp. 98-106.
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CHRONICLES OF THE HOSTILE SUN
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EARTH MAGICEngberg, Gillian. “Earth Magic.” Booklist, Vol. 102, No. 15, 2006, p. 38.Heras, Theo. “Earth Magic.” Canadian Children’s Book News, Vol. 29, No. 3, 2006, p. 31.Whalin, Kathleen. “Earth Magic.” School Library Journal, Vol. 52, No. 7, 2006, p. 118.
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FIERCE DEPARTURESCarr, Emily. “What Can Poetry Do?” Arc Poetry Magazine, No. 63, 2010, pp. 104-109.Jackson, Elaine. “Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand. (Book review).” Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 28, No. 1, 2009, p.p. 153-154.Wunker, Erin. “Mapping and Way-making.” Canadian Literature, No. 208, 2011, pp.191-192.
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IN ANOTHER PLACE, NOT HEREThorpe, Michael. “In Another Place, Not Here by Dionne Brand.” World Literature Today, Vol. 71, No. 2, 1997, pp. 446-447.
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INVENTORYClark, Hilary. “Poems of Witness.” Canadian Literature, No. 192, 2007, pp. 177-179.Johnston, Ingrid. “Inventory.” Resource Links, Vol. 12, No. 1, 2006, p. 62.Pierson, Ruth Roach. “The Political Made Poetic.” Fiddlehead, No. 231, 2007, pp. 104-108.
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LAND TO LIGHT ONGingell, Susan. “Still Need the Revolution.” Canadian Literature, No. 161/162, 1999, pp. 182-184.Ziniuk, Tara Michelle. “Land to Light On.” Herizons, Vol. 28, No. 4, 2015.
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LOVE ENOUGHGolob, Leah. “A City Seeks Connection in Grit of Love Enough.” The Georgia Straight, 2014.Jinje, Safa. “Love Enough.” Quill & Quire, Date Unknown.Reid, Tiana. “Hot Nights, Toronto Streets: What is Love Enough?” Rabble, 2014.
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NO LANGUAGE IS NEUTRALAuthor Unknown. “No Language is Neutral(Book Review).” Essays on Canadian Writing, 1995, p. 194.Moure, Erin. “A Love that Persists.” Books in Canada, Vol. 19, No. 9, 1990, pp. 42-43.Parsons, Marnie. “Poetry.” Letters in Canada, Vol. 69, No. 1, 1999, p. 40.Rich, Adrienne. “No Language is Neutral (Book Review).” Ms. Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 2, 1991, p. 74.
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OSSUARIESCarr, Emily. “Noh Crónica, Ossuary: Feminist Imaginations (Re)Shaping Canlit.” Journal Source, No. 65, 2011, pp. 113-120.Hanna, Jim. “Dionne Brand. Ossuaries.” World Literature Today, Vol. 84, No. 5, 2010, pp. 70-71.L’Abbe, Sonnet. “Dionne Brand Shows Melodious Yet Fierce Lyricism. (Book Review) (Ossuaries).” Globe & Mail, apr 24, 2010, F8.Lilburn, Tim. “Creating Something That Has Never Existed: Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries.” Brick: A Literary Journal, No. 89, 2012, pp. 131-135.Quéma, Anne. “Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries.” Canadian Literature No. 222, pp. 52-68, 2014.
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PRIMITIVE OFFENSIVEScheier, Libby. “Women and Words.” Books in Canada, Vol. 12, No. 10, 1983, pp. 31-32.
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SANS SOUCI AND OTHER STORIESDaurio, Beverley. “ Sans Souci and Other Stories.”Books in Canada, Vol. 17, No. 9, 1988, p. 6.
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THEORYAnsari, Sadiya. “Book Review: A Good Read in Theory.” Toronto Star, September 21, 2018.Ramji, Shazia Hafiz. “A Review of Dionne Brand’s Theory.” Hamilton Review of Books, Date Unknown.
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THIRSTY.Heft, Harold, Chris Jennings, and Noel Rieder. “In Griffin’s Grip.” Books in Canada, Vol. 32, No. 5, 2003, p. 41.Smyth, Heather. “Orbiting Toronto.” Canadian Literature, No. 182, 2004, pp. 97-98.
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UNCOLLECTED POETRYCuder-Domingues, Pilar. “Black Chronicles.” Canadian Literature, No. 316, 2013, pp. 186-187.Martins, Milléo and Maria Lúcia. “Dionne Brand and Afua Cooper: Diaspora and Continuities Shaped by National and Regional Cultures.” African American Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2018.
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WHAT WE ALL LONG FORGarvie, Maureen. “What We All Long For.” Quill & Quire, Vol. 70, No. 12, 2004, p. 18.Holtzman, Hannah. “What We All Long For Dionne Brand.” The Virginia Quarterly Review, Vol. 85, No. 1, 2009, p. 242.White, Evelyn C. “Soul Survivors (What We All Long For)(Book Review).” Canadian Literature, No. 188, 2006, pp. 183-184.
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WINTER EPIGRAMS AND EPIGRAMS TO ERNESTO CARDENAL IN DEFENSE OF CLAUDIA
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DISSERTATIONS/THESES/BOOKSBecker, Charity Dawn. Constructing the Mother-tongue, Language in the Poetry of Dionne Brand, Claire Harris, and Marlene Nourbese Philip. Thesis, University of New Brunswick, 1999.Ben Gouider Trabelsi, Hajer. Rethinking Community in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For , Ahdaf Soueif’s The Map of Love , Michael Ondaatje’s Anil’s Ghost and Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce. Dissertation, University of Montréal, 2001.Beverley, Andrea. Grounds for Telling it: Transnational Feminism and Canada Women’s Writing. Dissertation, University of Montreal, 2010.Birch-Bayley, Nicole. Haptic Aesthetics and Skin Diving: Touching on Diasporic Embodiment in the Works of Anne Michaels, Dionne Brand, and David Chariandy. Thesis, University of Victoria, 2013.Carraro, Elena Maria. Chaos, Loss, Passage and Desire. The Experience of Diaspora in the Works of Edwidge Danticat, Jamaica Kincaid, Andrea Levy and Dionne Brand. Dissertation, University of Padova, 2013.Casas, Maria Caridad. Multimodality in the Poetry of Lillian Allen & Dionne Brand: A Social Semiotic Analysis. Thesis, UCL Institute of Education, 2002.Garcia Zarranz, Libe. Queer TransCanadian Women’s Writing in the 21st Century: Assembling a New Cross-Border Ethic. Dissertation, University of Alberta, 2013.Garrett, Brenda L. Texts Like the World: The Use of Utopian Discourse to Represent Place in Works by Nicole Brossard and Dionne Brand. Thesis, University of Alberta, 2011.Goodwin, Kara. Narrating Silences: Silence, Voice and History in the Prose of Dionne Brand, M. Nourbese Philip, and Joy Kogawa. Thesis, Concordia University, 2000.Haynes, Jeremy D. An Oblique Blackness: Reading Racial Formation in the Aesthetics of George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, and Wayde Compton. Thesis, McMaster University, 2013.Huang, Li-Chuan. 重思多元文化:布蘭德的<<我們的渴望 (Reimaging Multiculturalism: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For. Thesis, National Tsing Hua University, 2007.Hui-Yi, Peng. Mapping Diaspora in Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging. Thesis, National Tsing Hua University, 2007.Kebe, Amy. Geographies and Displacements: Theorizing Feminism, Migration, and Transnational Feminist Practices in Selected Black Caribbean Canadian Women’s Texts. Dissertation, University of Montreal, 2009.Mahendran, Mahishini. Re-imagining the Caribbean Garden in Jamaica Kincaid’s My Garden, Olive Senior’s “Gardening in the Tropics,” and Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here. Thesis, McMaster University, 2001.Mills, Catherine Anne. Narratives of Home: National and Transnational Belonging in the Recent Works of Toni Morrison and Dionne Brand. Dissertation, University of Nottingham, 2007.Quansah, Ekua A. Women of African Ancestry’s Contribution to Scholarship: Voices through Fiction (Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Zimbabwe, Dionne Brand). Thesis, University of Toronto, 2005.Quigley, Ellen. Desiring Intersubjects: Lesbian Poststructuralism in Writing by Nicole Brossard, Daphne Marlatt, and Dionne Brand. Thesis, University of Alberta, 2000.Rifkind, Candida. The Burden of the Body: Selfhood and Representation in the Works of Dionne Brand. Thesis, Concordia University, 2000.Silver, Robyn. Space, Place, and Identity in the Prose of Dionne Brand. Thesis, Concordia University, 2007.Turpin, Cherie Ann. How Three Black Women Writers Combined Spiritual and Sensual Love: Rhetorically Transcending the Boundaries of Language (Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand). Lewiston, Edwin Mellen Press, 2010.Turpin, Cherie Ann.Narrative, Erotic Power and Black Womanhood in the Works of Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and Dionne Brand. Dissertation, University of Connecticut, 2005.Van Nie, Miriam Elizabeth. Writing/Righting the Body Queerly Intelligible, Reading a Black Lesbian Feminist Politics in Dionne Brand. Thesis, Queen’s University, 2001.Wild, Brendan John.Overhearing Dionne Brand: Genre and the Organic Intellectual Project. Doctoral Dissertation, University of Alberta, 2003.
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PEER-REVIEWED ACADEMIC ARTICLES
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A MAP TO THE DOOR OF NO RETURNCranston-Reimer, Sharlee. “‘It is life you must write about’: Fixity and Refraction in Dionne Brand’sA Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging.” Canadian Literature, 2016.Joseph, Maia. “Wondering into Country: Dionne Brand’sA Map to the Door of No Return.” Canadian Literature, No. 193, 2007, pp. 75-92.
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AT THE FULL AND CHANGE OF THE MOONBernabei, Franca. “Transatlantic Poetics of Haunting.” Atlantic Studies, Vol. 8, No. 4, 2011, pp. 485-506.Cuder-Dominguez, Pilar. “African Canadian Writing and the Narration(s) of Slavery.” Essays on Canadian Writing, no. 79, 2003, pp. 55-75.Grandison, Julia. “Bridging the Past and the Future: Rethinking the Temporal Assumptions of Trauma Theory in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon.” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 79, No. 2, 2010, pp. 764-782.Hua, Anh. “At the Full and Change of the Moon: The Passing Down of Cultural Memory in the Black Diaspora.” Reconstruction, Vol. 13, No. 3/4., 2013, p. 14.Medovarski, Andrea. “Dionne Brand and Corporeal Commemorations.” Topia, University of Toronto Press, April 10, 2018.Misrahi-Barak, Judith. “Diasporic Agency and the Power of Literary Form in Caribbean Literature.” Atlantic Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2012, pp. 431-446.Moynagh, Maureen. “The Melancholic Structure of Memory in Dionne Brand’s At the Full and Change of the Moon.” Journal of Commonwealth Literature, Vol. 43, No. 1, 2008, pp. 57-75.Tamargo, Isabel Guzzardo. “Relatos Neocimarrones y Legados de la (No) Soberania (Neo-Maroon Narratives and Legacies of (Non)Sovereignty).” Social & Economic Studies, Vol. 67, No. 1, 2018, pp. 67-84.
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THE BLUE CLERK
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CHRONICLES OF THE HOSTILE SUNLambert, Laurie R. “The Sovereignty of the Imagination: Poetic Authority and the Fiction of North Atlantic Universals in Dionne Brand’s Chronicles of the Hostile Sun.” Cultural Dynamics, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2014, pp. 173-194.
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EARTH MAGIC
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FIERCE DEPARTURESWunker, Erin. “Mapping and Way-making. (‘Fierce Departures: The Poetry of Dionne Brand,’ ‘ Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke’ and ‘Lousy Explorers’)(Book Review).” Canadian Literature, No. 208, 2011, p. 191.
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IN ANOTHER PLACE, NOT HEREHuebener, Paul. “‘No Moon to Speak Of’: Identity and Place in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.” Callaloo, Vol. 30, No. 2, 2007, pp. 615-625.Luft, Joanna. “Elizete and Verlia Go to Toronto: Caribbean Immigrant Sensibilities at ‘Home’ and Overseas in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.” Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 77, 2002, pp. 26-49.Machado Sez, Elena. “4. Messy Intimacies: Postcolonial Romance in Ana Menndez, Dionne Brand, and Monique Roffey.” Market Aesthetics: The Purchase of the Past in Caribbean Diasporic Fiction. Charlottesville, University of Virginia Press, 2015.Quynn, Kristina. “Elsewheres of Diaspora: Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.” Journal of Midwest Modern Language Association, Vol. 48, No. 1, 2015, pp. 121-146.Richardson, Matt. “Chapter 5. What Grace Was: Erotic Epistemologies and Diasporic Belonging in Dionne Brand’s
.” The Queer Limit of Black Memory: Black Lesbian Literature and Irresolution. Ohio State University Press, 2013, pp. 136-158. Visvis, Vikki. “Traumatic Forgetting and Spatial Consciousness in Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.” Mosaic, Vol. 45, No. 3, 2012, pp. 115-131. -
INVENTORYBarrett, Paul. “There are atomic openings in my chest / to hold the wounded”: Intimacy, the Body, and Transnational Solidarity in Dionne Brand’s Inventory.” Canadian Woman Studies, vol. 27, no. 2/3, 2009, pp. 100-106.Brydon, Diana. “Dionne Brand’s Global Intimacies: Practising Affective Citizenship.” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 76, No. 3, pp. 990-1006, 2007.Dawson, Carrie. “How Does Our Garden Grow?” Canadian Literature, No. 204, 2010, pp.110-113.Lousley, Cheryl. “Witness to the Body Count: Planetary Ethics in Dionne Brand’s Inventory.” Canadian Poetry, No. 63, 2008, pp. 37-58.
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LAND TO LIGHT ONFraser, Kaya. “Language to Light On: Dionne Brand and the Rebellious Word.” Studies in Canadian Literature, Vol. 30, No. 1, 2005, pp. 291-308.
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LOVE ENOUGHFraile-Marcos, Ana Maria. “Afroperipheralism and the Transposition of Black Diasporic Culture in the Canadian Glocal City: Compton’s The Outer Harbour and Brand’s Love Enough.” African American Review, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2018, pp. 181-195.
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MISCELLANEOUSAntwi, Phanuel. “With Love and Words.” Capilano Review, Vol. 3, No. 34, 2018, pp. 92-95.Ball, John Clement. “White City, Black Ancestry: The Immigrant’s Toronto in the Stories of Austin Clarke and Dionne Brand.”Open Letter, No. 8, 1994, pp. 9-19.Campbell, Wanda. “A Century of Canadian Ekphrasis.” Arc Poetry Magazine, 2011, pp. 166-170.Danytė, Milda. “Kitoks Balsas: Dionnne’s Brand Kūryba Kanados Kultūriniame Kontekste (A Dialogue of Difference: Dionne Brand’s Writing within Canadian Culture).” Literatūra, Vol. 55, No. 4, 2013, pp. 37-50.Greenblatt, Jordana. “Something Sadistic, Something Complicit: Text and Violence in “Execution Poems” and “Thirsty.” Canadian Literature, No. 197, 2008, pp. 80-95.Kang, Nancy. “‘Revolutionary Viragoes’: Othered Mothering in Afro-Caribbean Diaspora Literature.” Women’s Studies, Vol. 42, No. 6, pp. 696-719.McMahon, Elizabeth. “Parallel: Parallax—The Melancholy Dialectics of Dionne Brand.” Literary Careers in the Modern Era. Palgrave Macmillan Uk, 2016, pp. 113-128.Priestley-Brown, Sylvia M. “Dionne Brand: The New Wave Writing that Hates Suffering.” Open Letter, No. 9, 1994, pp. 97-102.Quigley, Ellen. “Picking the Deadlock of Legitimacy: Dionne Brand’s ‘Noise Like the World Cracking.’” Canadian Literature, No. 186, 2005, pp. 48-67.Sanfelici, Aline de Mello. “Evolvimento Politco nos Textos de Margaret Atwood e Dionne Brand (Political Engagement in the Writings by Margaret Atwood and Dionne Brand).” Revista Critica Cultural, Vol. 6, No. 1, 2011, pp. 105-113.Sturgess, Charlotte. “Dionne Brand: Writing the Margins.” Caribbean Women Writers: Fiction in English. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015, pp. 202-216.Thomas, Greg. “‘Neo-slave Narratives’ and Literacies of Maroonage: Rereading Morrison with Dionne Brand, George Jackson, and Assata Shakur.” Toni Morrison. Presses Universitaires de Vincennes, 2015, pp. 195-230.
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MULTIPLESmyth, Heather. “‘The Being Together of Strangers’: Dionne Brand’s Politics of Difference and the Limits of Multicultural Discourse.” Canadian Literature, Vol. 33, No. 1, 2008, pp. 272-290.Gantz, Lauren J. “Archiving the Door of No Return in Dionne Brand’sAt the Full and Change of the Moon.” Meridians, Vol. 13, No. 2, 2016, pp. pp. 123-147.Pecic, Zoran. “The Movements of Dionne Brand.” Queer Narratives of the Caribbean Diaspora: Exploring Tactics. Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2015, pp. 102-133.Sarnelli, Laura. “Cultures of Melancholia: Theorizing Desire and the Black Body.” Black Intersectionalities: A Critique for the 21st Century, ed. by Monica Michlin and Jean-Paul Rocchi. Liverpool University Press, 2014.Ribeiro, Patricia. “O Papel de Intelectual de Conceição Evaristo e Dionne Brand.” Scripta, Vol. 18, No. 35, 2014, pp. 143-164.Medovarski, Andrea. “Roughing it in Bermuda.” Canadian Literature, No. 220, pp. 94-114, 2014.Hunter, Lynette. “After Modernism: Alternative Voices in the Writings of Dionne Brand, Claire Harris, and Marlene Philip.” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 62, No. 2, 1992/93, pp. 256-281.Sarnelli, Laura. “Overlapping Territories, Drifting Bodies in Dionne Brand’s Work.” Review of International American Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1-2, 2011, pp. 117-133.Martins, Maria Lúcia Milléo. “Dionne Brand and Alanis Obomsawin: Polyphony in Poetics of Resistance.” Ilha do Desterro, Vol. 0, No. 56, 2010, pp. 151-164.Bertacco, Simona. “Imagining Bodies in the Work of Dionne Brand.” Altre Modernità, Vol. 0, No. 1, 2009, pp. 9-17.Thomas, H. Nigel. “A Commentary on the Poetry of Dionne Brand.” Kola, Vol. 21, No. 1 , 2009, pp. 10-20.Corr, John. “Affective Coordination and Avenging Grace: Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here.” Canadian Literature, No. 201, 2009.Mullins, Greg A. “Dionne Brand’s Poetics of Recognition: Reframing Sexual Rights.” Callaloo, Vol. 30, No. 4, 2007, pp. 1100-1109.Garvey, Johanna X. K. “‘The Place She Miss’: Exile, Memory, and Resistance in Dionne Brand’s Fiction.” Callaloo, Vol. 26, No. 2, 2003, pp. 486-503.Walter, Roland. “Between Canada and the Caribbean: Transcultural Contact Zones in the Works of Dionne Brand.” International Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 27, 2003, pp. 23-42.Goldman, Marlene. “Mapping the Door of No Return: Deterritorialization and the Work of Dionne Brand.” Canadian Literature, No. 182, 2004, pp. 13-28.Saul, Joanne. “‘In the Middle of Becoming’: Dionne Brand’s Historical Vision.” Canadian Woman Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, 2004, pp. 59-63.Casa, Maria Caridad. “Orality and the Body in the Poetry of Lillian Allen and Dionne Brand: Towards an Embodied Social Semiotics.” ARIEL, vol. 33, no. 2, 2002, pp. 7-32.Robertson, Lisa. “How Poems Work: Dionne Brand.” West Coast Line, Vol. 35, No. 3, 2001, pp. 138-140
No Language is Neutral
De Mello Sanfelici, Aline. “No Poem is Neutral: Activist Writing in the Poetry of Dionne Brand and Jeannette Armstrong.” Consciousness, Literature & the Arts, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2011, pp. 1-18.de Oliveira, Francieli. “‘Outras Vozes no Canadá: No Language is Neutral e Outros Poemas de Dionne Brand (Other Voices in Canadá: No Language is Neutral and Other Poems of Dionne Brand).” Semina: Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2012, pp. 193-202.Krakovsky, Violetta. “Dilemmas of Place and Identity in Dione Brand’s Prose Poem No Language is Neutral.” Journal of Caribbean Literatures, Vol. 4, No. 3, 2007, pp. 51-66.Uppal, Priscila. “Dionne Brand: No Language Is Neutral.” We Are What We Mourn: The Contemporary English-Canadian Elegy. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2008, pp. 228-238.Wiens, Jason. “‘Language Seemed to Split in Two’: National Ambivalence(s) and Dionne Brand’s No Language is Neutral.” Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 70, 2000, pp. 81-104.Zackodnik, Teresa. “‘I am blackening in my way’: Identity and Place in Dionne Brand’s No Language Is Neutral.” Essays on Canadian Writing, No. 57, 1995, pp. 194-211. -
OSSUARIESWallace, Belinda Deneen. “Accessing Pan-African Feminist Humanism: Unlocking the Metacolonial in the Poetry of Una Marson and Dionne Brand.” Women, Gender, and Families of Color, Vol. 4, No. 2, 2016, pp. 222-249.Zarranz, Libe García. “Trans-corporeal Materialities: Dionne Brand’s Ossuaries.” TransCanadian Feminist Fictions: New Cross-Border Ethics. McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2017, pp. 21-34.
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SANS SOUCI AND OTHER STORIESFürst, Saskia. “Palimpsests of Ancestral Memories: Black Women’s Collective Identity Development in Short Stories by Edwidge Danticat and Dionne Brand.” English Academy Review, vol. 34, no. 2, 2017, pp. 66-75.Mullins, Katie L. “‘My Body is History”: Embodying the Past, Present and Future in Dionne Brand’s Sans Souci and Other Stories.” Ariel, Vol. 42, No. 2, 2011, pp.5-22.Renk, Kathleen J. “‘Her Words are like Fire’: The Storytelling Magic of Dionne Brand.” Ariel, Vol. 27, No. 4, 1996, pp. 97-111.
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THIRSTY.Schaeffer, Tesla. “Readers Would Seek Grief: Dionne Brand’sthirstyand the Textual Legibility of Trauma.” Journal of Modern LiteratureVol. 39, No. 4, pp. 122-138, 2016.Mason, Jody. “Searching for the ‘Doorway’: Dionne Brand’sThirsty.” University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. 75, No. 2, 2006, pp. 784-800.
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WHAT WE ALL LONG FORAntwi, Phanuel. “Rough Play: Reading Black Masculinity in Austin Clarke’s “Sometimes, a Motherless Child” and Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” Studies in Canadian Literature, Vol. 34, No. 2, 2009, pp. 194-222.Austen, Veronica. “Spaces of Agency: Installation Art in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” Canadian Literature, No. 223, 2014, pp. 67-83.Blair, Jennifer. “The Queer Racing of Children in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” Studies in Canadian Literature, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2012, pp. 47-65.Buma, Michael. “Soccer and the City: The Unwieldy National in Dionne Brand’sWhat We All Long For.” Canadian Literature, No. 202, pp. 12-27, 2009.Chi-Wen Liu, Kate. “Toronto as a Diasporic and Dialogic City: Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” NTU Studies in Language and Literature, 2014, pp. 65-96.Dobson, Kit. “‘Struggle Work’: Global and Urban Citizenship in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For.” Canadian Literature, Vol. 31, No. 2, 2006, pp. 88-104.Efthymia Roupakia, Lydia. “La Articulacion del Desarrollo Afectivo de Ciudadania a Traves del Arte en What We All Long Forby Dionne Brand.” Atlantis, revista de la Asociacion Espanola de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, Vol. 37, No. 1, 2015, pp. 31-50.Johansen, Emily. “‘Streets are the Dwelling Place of the Collective’: Public Space and Cosmopolitan Citizenship in Dionne Brand’sWhat We All Long For.” Canadian Literature, No. 196, 2008, pp. 48-62.Leow, Joanne. “Beyond the Multiculture: Transnational Toronto in Dionne Brand’sWhat We All Long For.” Studies in Canadian Literature, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2012, pp. 192-212.Mackey, Allison. “Postnational Coming of Age in Contemporary Anglo-Canadian Fiction.” English Studies in Canada, Vol. 38, No. ¾, 2012, pp. 227-253.McKibbin, Molly Littlewood. “The Possibilities of Home: Negotiating City Spaces in Dionne Brand’s “What We All Long For.” Journal of Black Studies, Vol. 38, No. 3, 2008, pp. 502-518.Clarke, George Elliot. “Harris, Philip, Brand: Three Authors in Search of Literate Criticism.” Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1, 2000, pp. 161-189.
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