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The Outer Harbour
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Product Description: 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...read more
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9781551525723 | Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, May 12, 2015, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: 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.

After Canaan: Essays on Race, Writing, and Region
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Product Description: "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...read more
By Wayde Compton
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9781551523743 | Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, May 10, 2011, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: "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.

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9781551523873 | Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, April 1, 2011, cover price $18.95

Performance Bond
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Product Description: In Performance Bond, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of black culture.With poetry inspired by the insistent cadences of hip-hop and jazz, Compton fuses language, history, and contemporary black politics...read more
By Wayde Compton
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9781551521640 | Pap/com edition (Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, February 18, 2005), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: In Performance Bond, Wayde Compton, among the most progressive and experimental poets in Canada, defiantly and eloquently confronts the globalization and commodification of black culture.

Bluesprint: Black British Columbian Literature and Orature
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Product Description: In 1858, 600 blacks moved from San Francisco north to the colonies that would eventually become British Columbia (B.C.), Canada. The move was in part initiated by an invitation penned by the governor of the British colonies, James Douglas, who is commonly believed to have had African ancestry, a rumor he neither confirmed nor denied...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Wayde Compton (editor)
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9781551521183 | Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, January 1, 2003, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: In 1858, 600 blacks moved from San Francisco north to the colonies that would eventually become British Columbia (B.

49th Parallel Psalm
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By Wayde Compton
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9781551520650 | Arsenal Pulp Pr Ltd, April 1, 1999, cover price $15.95

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