The black Atlantic reconsidered : Black Canadian writing, cultural history, and the presence of the past / Winfried Siemerling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Siemerling, Winfried, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Black people in literature.

Culture in literature.

History in literature.

Transnationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 545 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A survey of English and French black Canadian writing and its transnational connections from the eighteenth century to the present.

Contents:

chapter 1 Introduction: Modernity and Canadian Time-Spaces of the Black Atlantic

PART I EARLY TESTIMONY AND THE BLACK CANADIAN NINETEENTH CENTURY. chapter 2 Slavery and Early Black Canadian Writing

chapter 3 The Black Canadian Nineteenth Century

PART II THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST. chapter 4 Slavery, the Black Canadian Nineteenth Century, and Caribbean Contexts in Contemporary Black Canadian Writing

chapter 5 Other Black Canadas

chapter 6 Coda: Other Canadas, Other Americas, the Black Atlantic Reconsidered

Appendix: Timeline.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-522) and index.

ISBN:

9780773582132

0773582134

9780773581876

0773581871

OCLC:

913977659