Having just launched my first novel, Scarborough (Arsenal Pulp Press), about the impact of a literacy program in our area, I was curious to know if David shared my experience of our community and its difficult truths. There are no famous monuments that dot this suburban landscape, just shared stories around shared meals in humble homes. We are both from Toronto’s notorious east end. To our mutual surprise, we discover our parents lived a mere five doors apart.ĭespite never crossing paths, there is something between us that feels warm and familiar. I am calling just blocks from the Scarborough townhome complex where he grew up, which happens to be the same complex where my parents recently resided. Michael A.Guess where I am calling you from?” I ask author David Chariandy, who is on the phone from his home in Vancouver, where he teaches at Simon Fraser University.ĭavid jokingly asks back, “Is it a few blocks away from where I grew up?” During our initial icebreaking conversation we realize that the answer to his question is a literal yes.Disbro, “ Mapping the Political-Sensual-Spiritual Potential of the Lordean Erotic“

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Saudi Garcia, “ Living Contra-Dictions: Exploring the Racial Ontology of Hispaniola/Kiskeya/Ayiti“.

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Kelly Baker Josephs, Introduction and Table of Contents The journal publishes literary discussions, interviews with writers, reviews of new publications (creative and scholarly), and poetry and prose by Caribbean writers. Initiated in 2010, sx salon appears three times per year (February, June, and October). As a forum, sx salon aims to stimulate these sensibilities and preoccupations across different literary genres. Caribbean creative writing has always wrestled with the idea of an aesthetic form that engages regional and diasporic understandings of our changing realities.

Sx salon: a small axe literary platform is a digital forum for innovative critical and creative explorations of Caribbean literature, broadly defined. To discuss the various dimensions of Chariandy’s novel, sx salon has gathered several voices from Canada and the Caribbean to explore the intricacies of homosocial and diasporic spaces, linearity, and the lines between nostalgia, sentiment, and survival. (Introduction) Brother has received many awards and accolades, such as the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and the Toronto Book Award. Issue 30 of sx salon is dedicated to David Chariandy’s second novel, Brother (2017).

Novel brother by david chariandy