{"product_id":"9781459730342-membering","title":"’Membering","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGiller Prize winner Austin Clarke’s memoirs provide insightful cultural observations by one of today’s most influential black writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature — Longlisted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e2016 RBC Taylor Prize — Longlisted\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize–winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called “Canada’s first multicultural writer.”\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAustin Clarke is a distinguished and celebrated novelist and short-story writer. His works often centre around the immigrant experience, of which he writes with humour and compassion, happiness and sorrow. In \u003ci\u003e’Membering\u003c\/i\u003e, Clarke shares his own experiences growing up in Barbados and moving to Toronto to attend university in 1955 before becoming a journalist. With vivid realism he describes Harlem of the ’60s, meeting and interviewing Malcolm X and writers Chinua Achebe and LeRoi Jones. Clarke went on to become a pioneering instructor of Afro-American Literature at Yale University and inspired a new generation of Afro-American writers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eClarke has been called Canada’s first multicultural writer. Here he eschews a traditional chronological order of events and takes the reader on a lyrical tour of his extraordinary life, interspersed with thought-provoking meditations on politics and race. Telling things as he ’members them.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55419649950070,"sku":"9781459730342","price":30.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_27668569.jpg?v=1742874186","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781459730342-membering","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}