“Writing is an act of desire, as is reading.”
As written in her dedication, this is a book for those who are adrift. It is for those who, at some point, were looking for something – for belonging, a place, a sense of self. It is a book for those who are her “fellow dwellers of the door.”
Dionne Brand’s A Map to the Door of No Return is a search. It is poetry. It is a negotiation – contradictory and unbound by time. As she traces a map to the Door of No Return, Brand charts a search for identity and belonging in the Black diaspora, taking readers on a passage through time and place, weaving in philosophy, poetry and politics. From Toronto to St. Lucia, Toni Morrison to Neruda, Brand traces a map to the Door of No Return that highlights the complexities of a diasporic relationship to land, identity and belonging.
“Having no name to call on was having no past; having no past pointed to the fissure between the past and the present. That fissure is represented in the Door of No Return: that place where our ancestors departed one world for another; the Old World for the New.”
The Door of No Return is not a physical door – rather, it is accessed through the mind and represents a place of forgetting and the forgotten. It is a rupture in history. It is the “door out of which Africans were captured, loaded onto ships heading for the New World” on a journey that required an urgent forgetting – a journey that laid the burden of trauma on the backs of the generations to follow.
As Brand negotiates this burden of trauma and forgetting, she whisks readers through a series of moments that are intricately woven together even as they are unrestricted by time and place. Her expertly crafted prose leads the reader to pause and re-read the beautiful passages that provide a window to her memories, her interactions, her confusion and disappointment. In a Map to the Door of No Return, Brand is a generous and passionate guide on an impossible journey toward belonging.
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