Directions home : approaches to African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, George Elliott

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 320 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2012]

Contents:

1 'This is no hearsay': Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives 19

2 A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson: Two Afro-New Brunswick Responses to 'The Black Atlantic' 30

3 Introducing a Distinct Genre of African-Canadian Literature: The Church Narrative 46

4 Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd 58

5 Seeing through Race: Surveillance of Black Males in Jessome, Satirizing Black Stereotypes in James 68

6 Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African-Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angélique 78

7 Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections 91

8 The Idea of Europe in African-Canadian Literature 102

9 Does (Afro-) Caribbean-Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean? 116

10 Voluptuous Rapine: The Viscous Economy of 'Vice' in the Short Fiction of H. Nigel Thomas and Althea Prince 132

11 Repatriating Arthur Nortje 143

12 Locating the Early Dionne Brand: Landing a Voice 154

13 Maxine Tynes: A Sounding and a Hearing 164

14 Bring Da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, chez d 'bi.young and Oni Joseph 176

15 Frederick Ward: Writing as Jazz 190.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780802091536

0802091539

9780802094254

0802094252

OCLC:

786426648

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