![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator, comically and perhaps inevitably, fails at such revolutionary goals, distracted by a series of lovers and undone by her own inconsistencies. “My aim at the time,” she says, “was to write the bomb of a thesis that would blow up the buildings,” her research exploding the insistently white, straight, and male institutions of academia. The book centers on a narrator named Teoria who is trying to complete a doctoral dissertation of vaunting ambition. Theory (2018), her most recent novel, exhibits the formal complexity and daring of all of her work the novel feels no need to declare race and gender and instead situates the narrator fully in her intellectual and social worlds. Aesthetically and politically radical, Brand’s work has made her a central figure in both world and Canadian literature, earning her many awards and honors, including the Governor General’s Award for Poetry (1997), the Griffin Poetry Prize (2011), the Toronto Book Award (2006, 2019), the Trillium Book Award (1997, 2019), and the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Fiction (2019). The third Poet Laureate of Toronto (2009-2012), Brand was born in Guayaguayare, Trinidad and moved to Toronto in 1970. Dionne Brand is a novelist, poet, and essayist. ![]()
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