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Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature, Vol. 1 »
Authors: Wayde Compton
ISBN-13: 9781551521183, ISBN-10: 1551521180
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press, Limited
Date Published: January 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Wayde Compton
Wayde Compton is a poet, turntablist, and black historian in Vancouver.
Book Synopsis
An anthology of black literature and orature from the Pacific Northwest.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | 13 | |
| Introduction | 17 | |
| from Journal of James Douglas, 1843. Including Voyage to Sitka and Voyage to the North-West Coast | 41 | |
| A Voice from the Oppressed to the Friends of Humanity | 49 | |
| Lines Written After the Great Fire at Barkerville, 16th September, 1868 | 51 | |
| The Old Red Shirt | 51 | |
| from Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and Present Century | 53 | |
| letters to The Cariboo Sentinel | 65 | |
| from The Life of Wm. H. H. Johnson, from 1839-1900, and the New Race | 70 | |
| from Notes made by Marie Albertina Stark (afterwards Mrs. Wallace) from the recollections of her mother, Sylvia Stark, who was born a slave in Clay County, Missouri, and settled on Salt Spring Island with her husband, Louis Stark, and family in the year 1860, as homesteaders | 78 | |
| from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End | 95 | |
| from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End | 101 | |
| from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End | 105 | |
| from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End | 111 | |
| from Opening Doors: Vancouver's East End | 115 | |
| from Being Brown: A Very Public Life | 121 | |
| Koopab ... | 128 | |
| The Return | 128 | |
| Mourne Fortune, Castries, St. Lucia | 128 | |
| Powell Street Conspiracy | 136 | |
| One Road to the Sea | 136 | |
| from "Blue Notes of a White Girl" | 136 | |
| Waiting | 147 | |
| Immigrant | 147 | |
| Hope Hotel | 147 | |
| The Literature of Africa and Its Diaspora: Black History Month, 1997 | 153 | |
| from A Credit To Your Race | 160 | |
| Out of order / talk's about them folks jimi - a tale of black male of black mail | 168 | |
| Christopher's blues | 168 | |
| Talk'n about ho bo'n it jimmy | 168 | |
| 1980 | 171 | |
| Landed | 171 | |
| Repatriation | 171 | |
| Tongues in memory of Bob Marley | 171 | |
| Into Consciousness | 171 | |
| from Into and Out of Dislocation | 183 | |
| from Je me souviens: Memories of an Expatriate Anglophone Montrealaise, Quebecoise Exiled in Canada | 194 | |
| Returning to the place where there were so few of us when I grew up | 197 | |
| This Is Not the Miscegenation Blues of a Tragic Mulatto | 197 | |
| Mending Clothes as I Think of Sojourner Truth | 197 | |
| Like Koya | 200 | |
| Trunk Music | 203 | |
| Bus Fucking | 213 | |
| Sadie mae's mane | 213 | |
| Talk Show | 215 | |
| Biopsy | 215 | |
| Oh Joshua Fit de Battle | 215 | |
| Icarus | 220 | |
| Home Alone and Cooking | 220 | |
| When I Grow Up I Want To Be an Old Woman | 220 | |
| Land for Salt | 225 | |
| (for Sidane Arone) | 225 | |
| Hair: It Can Be a Big Thing | 225 | |
| from diss/ed banded nation | 232 | |
| from Threads | 235 | |
| Black Mary | 245 | |
| Bus Ride East | 245 | |
| from Shadowtown: Black Fist Rising | 249 | |
| Lena & Hue | 253 | |
| Offering | 256 | |
| from "The Lost Conquistador" | 256 | |
| Eshu Got Venus | 261 | |
| Back | 265 | |
| Dewdrop | 265 | |
| Natural Histories of Southwestern British Columbia | 269 | |
| JD | 272 | |
| Legba, Landed | 272 | |
| Bangkok Business | 277 | |
| Three | 277 | |
| Floored | 277 | |
| Red Sea Crossing | 280 | |
| Tizita | 280 | |
| Sex speaks | 282 | |
| AlterNation | 282 | |
| Fau(x)ve | 282 | |
| from Aunt Ermine's Recipe for Brown Sugar Fudge | 282 | |
| Dreaded Fist | 291 | |
| On Being a Black Woman in Canada (and Indian and English too) To the Tune of Pensees (VII Contradictions) by Blaise Pascal, Which Has Here Been Adapted to Show the Proper Terms by Which One Should Understand and Communicate One's Race, According to the Language and Syntactical Structure (and, By Way of Extension, the Philosophies and Logic) of One of the Greatest Modern Thinkers Ever to Have Lived | 294 | |
| A Bibliography of Black British Columbian Literature and Orature | 297 | |
| Publication Credits | 303 | |
| Notes on Contributors | 307 |
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