The Routledge handbook of Black Canadian literature / edited by Andrea A. Davis and Leslie Sanders.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Davis, Andrea A., editor.

Sanders, Leslie, editor.

Series:

Routledge literature handbooks.

Routledge Literature Handbooks Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (583 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; Abingdon, England : Routledge, [2025]

Summary:

The Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Canadian literary studies.

Contents:

The code that limits : Black Canadian anthologizing and anthologies / Sharon Morgan Beckford

Black small press literary publishing in English Canada / Stephen Cain

Palimpsests of Nation & Diaspora : Black qriting in Canada and Canadian literatures / Paul Barrett

Afropolitanism and the African immigrant in the African-Canadian literary canon / Amatoritsero Ede

Black maritime-Africadian-literature : an introduction / George Elliott Clarke

Black Canadian literature in Francophone Quebec / Susan Ireland and Patrice Proulx

Jazz, diaspora, and the history and writing of Black Anglophone Montreal / Winfried Siemerling

Writing Toronto / Darcy Ballantyne

From absence to abundance : recovering the Black Prairie Archive, 1872-2023 / Karina Vernon

'It is arrogant to disappear:' a humble re-visioning of Black literature in British Columbia / David Chariandy

Slave narratives as a transnational genre / Nele Sawallisch

Post-slavery and the making of the Black Canadian novel, 1850s-1990 / Jennifer Harris

African-Canadian poetry in English : 1890-2000 / George Elliott Clarke

Black Canadian children's literature : evolution, writers and impact / Janet Seow

Writing Black Canada : an unfinished project of freedom / Andrea A. Davis

Speak OurStory! 12 Poet-to-poet conversations on the legacy, the now, and future of Black Canadian dub poetry & spoken word / Wendy Motion Brathwaite

National and diasporic dialogues : Black Canadian drama and theatre / Jacqueline Petropolous

Rising, lifting, resisting : a history oF black dramatic feature filmmaking in Canada / Andrea Medovarski

Marie-Celie agnant / Susan Ireland and Patrice Proulx

"The abacus of her eyelids" : Dionne Brand's poetics / Christina Sharpe

Dionne Brand : ambivalent novelizations / Eshe Mercer-James

After Canadian multiculturalism : David Chariandy / Rinaldo Walcott

Austin Clarke's "Out-a-order" poetics and the archiving of Black lives / Michael A. Bucknor

George Elliott Clarke : a biocritical examination / Joseph J. Pivato

Wayde Compton : from archive to innovation in the Black British Columbian lived imaginary / Heather Smyth

Esi Edugyan : Black fugitivity and the possibility of a second life / Pilar Cuder-Domínguez

Lawrence Hill's critical aesthetics of cultural resilience / Ana María Fraile-Marcos

"Magic in the real" : the speculative engagements of Nalo Hopkinson / Maureen Moynagh

Dany Laferrière / Claire Reising

The multiplicities of Émile Ollivier : Haitian tragedies and Montreal crossroads / Amanda Perry

Disturbing the peace, caring for the word : M. NourbeSe Philip / Kate Siklosi

Makeda Silvera : prioritizing marginalized voices / Eshe Mercer-James.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

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ISBN:

9781040253304

104025330X

9781003156574

1003156576

9781040253236

1040253237

OCLC:

1458297927