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Book SynopsisGiller Prize winner Austin Clarke's memoirs provide insightful cultural observations by one of today's most influential black writers.
Trade Review[a] brilliant free-range style of writing, which is enfolded in discussions of ideas, interaction with other writers and fragments of [Clarke's] own memories and reflections of 'membering. * Literary Review of Canada *
[W]hat is most evident throughout ’Membering is Clarke’s voice, which is rich, engaging, and – to use the author’s own word – singular. * Quill & Quire *
A magnificent account of a writer’s life. -- Globe and Mail
Clarke’s voice … is rich, engaging, and — to use the author’s own word — singular. * Quill & Quire *
Table of Contents1 The Little Black Englishmen
2 The Court Martial
3 Toranno!… Toranno!… Toranno!…
4 1960s Toronto
5 The CBC Stagehand
6 ÜJesus Christ, boy! You is a running-fool, a race horse!Ý
7 Christmas, 1960
8 Timmins and Kirkland Lake
9 Looking for “Colour”
10 Harlem, 1963
11 Looking for Brother James and Brother Malcolm
12 Aftermath
13 Election Campaign, 1977
14 Georgia on My Mind
15 A Walk from Asquith Avenue
16 Mother’s Precepts and Commandments
17 The Green Door House
18 “Invisibility”
19 The Culture of Chains
20 Allies
21 Audience with the Queen
22 The “Loyalty of Negritude” in Sport
23 “A Writer’s Life”
24 Power Games
25 Yale
26 Aquarius
27 The Old Boy
28 Home
Epilogue
Afterword
Credits
