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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clarke, George Elliott, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Black authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Africans in literature.

Black people in literature.

Race in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] ; London, [England] : University of Toronto Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature. Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson. With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature."--Publisher's description

Contents:

Divagation: Approaching African-Canadian Literature (Again)

PASSPORT: ESSAYS. "This is no hearsay": Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives

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

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

Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd

Seeing Through Race: Surveillance of Black Males in Jessome, Satirizing Black Stereotypes in James

Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African-Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angelique

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

The Idea of Europe in African-Canadian Literature

Does Afro-Caribbean-Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean?

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

Repatriating Arthur Nortje

Locating the Early Dionne Brand: Landing a Voice

Maxine Tynes: A Sounding and a Hearing

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

Frederick Ward: Writing as Jazz.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4426-6651-X

1-4426-6111-9

OCLC:

818015830