Exploring Influence on Identity in Dionne Brand’s What We All Long For

Do you want to find a culture full of African-Americans who have been to Chinatown? Probably not, as it is not what they expected. We live in a world where colonies of different colors are anticipated or otherwise distinguish different spaces; African Americans should be in the slums and Chinese to Chinatown It belongs, and Caucasi holds more elite communities. Over the centuries all races have struggled to enter society where people are accepted equally. Also, some jobs are not distributed to gentle races.

Dionne Brand's "all of us' s strengths" focuses on the concept of identity and affiliation. Characters in the novel are always trying to get agreement between themselves and the places they live by giving meaning to surrounding things and characters. Novels convey different ways in which characters find meaning in their lives by finding or creating what they think is their "home". Among their personal work, the authors Benedict Anderson, Sura Rath, and Salman Rushdie insisted that these descriptions are consistent with the concept of the brand "home" described in this novel . The brand did not try to pass through the city of Toronto which was used to define the concept of "house" in immigrant parents, young Canadian born, and her novel. The theory of Anderson, Russ and Rush suggests that "home" is not actually defined, but this is an imaginary spiritual concept and widely used in overseas communities around the world It is a tool.

BW: Dionne Brand. She is from Trinidad and lived in the Toronto area since the 1970s. My mother is from Barbados and my father is from Jamaica. That's why I am a beachfront man. When reading the work of Dionne Brand, I can hear the influence of the water ... just like listening to the sea. I grew up in Canada. Because it was not a place close to the sea, I did not experience intimately at the waterfront. But in her work, you can listen to what you want but you can not touch it. Because I do not know that my poem makes this possible, her work opened the world to me. This makes me want to investigate my voice.