Odysseys Home
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Odysseys Home

Mapping African-Canadian Literature

  1. 504 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Odysseys Home

Mapping African-Canadian Literature

About this book

Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies and critiques several of its key creators and texts.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. A Note on the Text
  4. Embarkation: Discovering African-Canadian Literature
  5. PART ONE. SORTIES
  6. Contesting a Model Blackness: A Meditation on African-Canadian African-Americanism, or the Structures of African-Canadianite
  7. Must All Blackness Be American ? Locating Canada in Borden's ‘Tightrope Time’ or Nationalizing Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic
  8. The Career of Black English in Nova Scotia: A Literary Sketch
  9. The Birth and Rebirth of Africadian Literature
  10. Syl Cheney-Coker’s Nova Scotia, or the Limits of Pan-Africanism
  11. Toward a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry
  12. Liberalism and Its Discontents: Reading Black and White in Contemporary Quebecois Texts
  13. Treason of the Black Intellectuals?
  14. Canadian Biraciality and Its ‘Zebra’ Poetics
  15. Clarke versus Clarke: Tory Elitism in Austin Clarke's Short Fiction
  16. Harris, Philip, Brand: Three Authors in Search of Literate Criticism
  17. No Language Is Neutral: Seizing English for Ourselves
  18. PART TWO. INCURSIONS: SELECTED REVIEWS
  19. The Complex Face of Black Canada
  20. Viewing African Canada
  21. The Death and Rebirth ofAfricadian Nationalism
  22. An Unprejudiced View of Two Africadian Poets
  23. Reading Ward’s ‘Blind Man’s Blues’
  24. African-Islanders
  25. Another Great Thing
  26. Growing Up Black in Alberta
  27. Toward a Black Women’s Canadian History
  28. Love Which Is Insight
  29. The Outraged Citizen-Poet Speaks Out
  30. PART THREE. SURVEYS
  31. A Primer of African-Canadian Literature
  32. Africana Canadiana: A Select Bibliography of Literature by African-Canadian Authors, 1785-2001, in English, French, and Translation
  33. Works Cited
  34. Index