'Membering Austin Clarke / Paul Barrett, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barrett, Paul, 1979- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Clarke, Austin, 1934-2016--Criticism and interpretation.

Clarke, Austin.

Clarke, Austin, 1934-2016.

Criticism and interpretation.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

viii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2020.

Summary:

"Despite being one of Canada's most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934-2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke's marginalization in Canadian literature by demonstrating that his writing on Black diasporic life and the immigrant experience is a foundational, if untold, part of the story of CanLit. Novelist, short-story writer, poet, and essayist, Clarke was born in Barbados, moved to Canada in 1955 and went on to establish Black Studies programs at a number of universities in America. He returned to Canada and became one of Canadian literature's most prolific authors and a public voice for Black people in Canada. Among his best-known works are the Giller Award-winning The Polished Hoe (2002) and his memoir 'Membering (2015). This collection of essays from colleagues, scholars, friends, and fellow writers addresses Clarke's work in all its richness and complexity in order to understand how Clarke's legacy continues to transform Canadian writing. It includes previously unpublished poems and short stories from Clarke's archives as well as personal reflections from friends, histories of the publication of his works, essays, interviews, and short stories and poems inspired by Clarke."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. The Trouble of Intimacy / Rinaldo Walcott

2. On Austin Clarke's Style / Paul Barrett

3. Dear Austin: Why Teaching Your Work Is Difficult / Leslie Sanders

4. "There Were No Elders. Only Old Men": Aging and Misogyny in Austin Clarke's Later Fiction / Camille Isaacs

5. That Man, That Man

-Stories and Confabulations / Austin Clarke

6. Burrowing Into the Craft: Editing Austin Clarke / Dennis Lee

7. Editorial Notes for "When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks" / Dennis Lee

8. Sometimes, A Motherless Child: A Double Take / Giovanna Riccio

9. "These Virtues o' the Cullinerry Harts": Talking Food and Politics In the Letters of Austin Clarke, Sam Selvon, and Andrew Salkey / Kris Singh

10. Let Me Stand Up / Austin Clarke

11. Austin A.C. Clarke Is the Most / Kate Siklosi

12. The Rogue in Me / Austin Clarke

13. Spatlality in the Poetry of Austin A.C. Clarke / Stephen Cain

14. The Lessons of Austin Clarke / Sonnet L'Abbe

15. "The Wordshop of the Kitchen": Impressions of Austin Clarke and Paule Marshall / Asha Varadharajan

16. Of Kin and Kind / Marquita Smith

17. The Robber / Austin Clarke

18. Austin Clarke: Defying the Silence, a Life in Letters / John Harewood

19. Austin Clarke Love Poem / Cyril Dabydeen

20. Do Not Let Them Choose the Fragrance / Austin Clarke

21. There Will Never Be Another Austin Clarke / Patrick Crean

22. Still the British Empire / Andre Forget

23. I Can Say I Read It / E. Martin Nolan

24. Austin Clarke's Books / Katherine McKittrick

25. Hyphen (for Austin "Tom" Clarke, 1934

2016) / John R. Lee

26. "Myth Grounded In Truth": Sound, Light, and the Vertical Imagination in Austin Clarke's `Memberlng' / Winfried Siemerling

27. A St. Matthias / George Elliott Clarke

28. Clarke on Clarke / Paul Barrett

29. All He Wanted to Do Was Type / Michael A. Bucknor

30. Recognition / David Chariandy.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: 'Membering Austin Clarke.

ISBN:

1771124776

9781771124775

OCLC:

1144892194