I hovered about him in any room in which he rested. Or stop bothering or else he would not remember. He told me to stop bothering him and that he would remember. Yoruba? Ibo? Ashanti? Mandingo? He said no to all of them, saying that he would know it if he heard it. My grandfather said he knew what people we came from. There is as it says no way in no return.Ī Circumstantial Account of a State of Things Since leaving was never voluntary, return was, and still may be, an intention, however deeply buried. It is also perhaps a psychic destination. But to the Door of No Return which is illuminate d in the consciousness of Blacks in the Diaspora there are no maps. They are well worn, gone over by cartographer after cartographer, refined from Ptolemy’s Geographia to orbital photographs and magnetic field imaging satellites. Authors, Canadian (English)-20th century-Biography. National Library of Canada Cataloguing in Publication DataĪ map to the door of no return : notes to belonging / Dionne Brand.ġ. “Arriving at Desire” appeared in Desire in Seven Voices, edited by Lorna Crozier sections of “Up Here” were previously published in Toronto Life. Vintage Canada and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House of Canada Limited.
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