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