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Drama Canadian

blood.claat sangre

by (author) d'bi (a K.A. d'bi young anitafrika) young

translated by queen nzinga maxwell edwards

Publisher
Playwrights Canada Press
Initial publish date
Jul 2006
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780887548444
    Publish Date
    Jul 2006
    List Price
    $19.95

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Description

sangre es la jerstoria de la sangre y la mujer sangre de vida y sangre de muerte tal cual experimentada en la travesia de la quinceanera mudgu sankofa, en whitfield, kingston, jamaica.

About the authors

Contributor Notes

d'bi.young.anitafrika is a jamaican-canadian dub poet, actor, and playwright who believes in life. love. and revolushun. her first play yagayah, co-authored with naila belvett, was published in volume II of Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama edited by djanet sears in 2003. her first book of poetry art on black was published by women's press in 2006. blood.claat is the first play in the three faces of mudgu trilogy. the other two plays are androgyne and chronicles in dub.

d'bi.young has performed extensively throughout canada, the caribbean, latin america and europe. she has produced four dub poetry albums and is currently working on her fifth, entitled 'ky.kyâ- - a cuban-canadian musical collaboration. she has been featured in numerous productions including canada's hit musical drama 'da Kink in my hair, and canada's first afro-canadian sitcom 'Lord Have Mercy.â-

her other writings have appeared in Fireweed, Contemporary Verse, She Speaks, and the African Canadian Theatre Review. she is currently completing her second manuscript of poetry entitled riversâ-¦and other blacknessâ-¦between us. recently, she was appointed to a two-year residency at the Soulpepper Theatre Academy.

d'bi.young.anitafrika resides in toronto canada with her sun: moon.