Blackness can’t be easily categorized as one or even a handful of things. Author Esi Edugyan on deconstructing ideas of Blackness, finding fiction and how it all started for her in Calgary, Alberta.

Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee.

Published on Thursday, March 9, 2023.

https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/03/09/Esi-Edugyan-Interview/

Blackness can’t be easily categorized as one or even a handful of things. Author Esi Edugyan on deconstructing ideas of Blackness, finding fiction and how it all started for her in Calgary, Alberta. Olamide Olaniyan is associate editor at The Tyee. Published on Thursday, March 9, 2023. https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2023/03/09/Esi-Edugyan-Interview/

Against a Black ‘Monolith’

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