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  • The Outer Harbour

    by Wayde Compton ...
    Wayde Compton's debut story collection is imbued with the color of speculative fiction; one strand of stories follows the emergence of a volcanic island, which alternatively becomes the site of a radical Native peoples' occupation, a real-estate development, and finally a detention center for illegal immigrants. Moving from 2001 through to 2025, The Outer Harbour is at once a history book and a ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blue Road

    A Fable of Migration

    by Wayde Compton ...
    In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, a will-o’-the-wisp, she embarks for the fabled Northern Kingdom, where she might find people like her. The only way to get there, though, is to travel the strange and dangerous Blue Road that stretches to the horizon like a mark upon a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • After Canaan

    Essays on Race, Writing, and Region

    by Wayde Compton ...
    "Compton pushes us to look beneath the surface—past those comforting tales of nationhood and racial solidarity—to the more nebulous and ever-shifting truth. This is a brilliant and original work that should be mandatory reading for any student of race and history."—Danzy Senna, author of CaucasiaAfter Canaan, the first nonfiction book by acclaimed African Canadian poet Wayde Compton, repositions ... Read more

    $13.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics

    by Wayde Compton ...
    Series series CLC Kreisel Lecture Series
    Toward an Anti-Racist Poetics seeks to dislodge the often unspoken white universalism that underpins literary production and reception today. In this personal and thoughtful book, award-winning author Wayde Compton explores how we might collectively develop a poetic approach that makes space for diversity by doing away with universalism in both lyric and avant-garde verse. Poignant and ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

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    James Douglas

    An Opera

    by Obediya Jones-Darrell, Wayde Compton, Jónína Kirton ...
    Narrated by Full Cast ...

    Unabridged

    59 min

    "Imagine it is the mid 1800’s, Western Canada. Also known as ""the father of British Columbia"", James Douglas is the governor of the colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia. Governor Douglas was born in British Guiana into a ""Scotch West Indian"" family with a Scottish father and a Caribbean mother. At Fort St. James he married Amelia Connolly, of Métis ancestry. In 1864 Douglas ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    An American Conversation

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  • Passing

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