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'''Orville Lloyd Douglas''' (born [[September 26]] [[1976]]) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[poet]] and [[writer]]. His work concentrates on class, creative non fiction,gender, poetry, pop culture, politics, race, and sexuality. |
'''Orville Lloyd Douglas''' (born [[September 26]] [[1976]]) is a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[poet]] and [[writer]]. His work concentrates on class, creative non fiction,gender, poetry, pop culture, politics, race, and sexuality. |
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Orville Lloyd Douglas (born September 26 1976) is a Canadian poet and writer. His work concentrates on class, creative non fiction,gender, poetry, pop culture, politics, race, and sexuality.
Biography
Orville Lloyd Douglas was born in Toronto, Ontario to Jamaican-Canadian parents. He graduated from York University with a B.A. degree in history in June 2004.
He has contributed to several Canadian and international publications, including Word Magazine, The New Zealand Herald, Georgia Straight, The Toronto Star, Xtra!, NOW and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Douglas' first volume of poetry, You Don't Know Me, was published by TSAR Publications. The volume is no longer in print. Douglas was "depressed and distraught" with the quality of his poetry collection.[1]. [1] The poetry collection explored many polemical issues such as death, unhappiness, suicide, depression, identity, love, homophobia in Caribbean culture, and gay racism. According to Worldcat the world's largest librarian resource website You Don't Know Me is in the collections of one hundred and three public and university libraries in New Zealand, Canada, Australia, and the United States.[2]
In 2007, Douglas' fifteen minute radio documentary "The Good Son" was broadcast across Canada on the CBC Radio One program Outfront. The first section of the documentary was an interwoven quilt of Douglas reading his poetry and interviewing his father. The second part of the documentary was a monologue as Douglas talks about his frustrations. He explores issues such as homophobia in the black community, the pernicious hypocrisy and gay racism in the homosexual culture, heterosexual marriage, family discord, and racism against young, gay black men.
Douglas' poetry has been featured in the Wilderness House Literary Review, SNR Review, The Vermillion Literary Project,Pedestal Magazine, and Seminal (2007), the first anthology of gay male Canadian poetry.
In the essay "Shades of Blackface", published in The New Zealand Herald, Douglas criticizes Angelina Jolie for taking the female lead in the film A Mighty Heart. Douglas argues that since the real Mariane Pearl is what he terms a "bi-racial" woman an actress of similar heritage such as Thandie Newton should have had the role instead of a white actress. Pearl, a multi-racial woman, is the daughter of a Dutch-Jewish father and an Afro-Chinese-Cuban mother.[3][4][5]
He also expands his thoughts about Hollywood racism and sexism against black women in The Georgia Straight opinion article "Is White the New Black?"
Bibliography
- You Don't Know Me (2005)
Radio documentaries
- "The Good Son" - CBC Radio - 2007
References
- ^ a b "I only have one book published “You Don’t Know Me” but I am still trying" by Orville Lloyd Douglas
- ^ http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/top3mset/58545499 You Don't Know Me Worldcat]
- ^ Mariane Pearl (August 2006). "The woman who gave me my strength". Glamour magazine. Note: this article is also on the Institute for Jewish & Community Research website (link).
- ^ Heller McAlpin (2 October 2003). "Collateral Damage". Christian Science Monitor.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Andrew O'Hehir (21 May 2007). "Beyond the Multiplex". Salon.com. Retrieved 2007-06-16.
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