Extremely comprehensive text “blending criticism and autobiography-as-artifact” from Dionne Brand, the acclaimed poet and novelist. She explores “her encounters with colonial, imperialist and racist tropes in famous and familiar books” like Mansfield Park by Jane Austen.

This is definitely the kind of book that should be assigned in post-colonial literature classes in universities and colleges. It will force students to look at literature from a lens that it not the first one they would default to, and to help them see different perspectives and takes on things. Brand also shares how reading many of the seminal works of literature impacted her, and the observations she has made.