Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature
"Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature is a pioneering study of African-Canadian literary creativity, laying the groundwork for future scholarly work in the field. Based on extensive excavations of archives and texts, this challenging collection of essays and reviews presents a history of African-Canadian literature and examines its debt to, and synthesis with, oral cultures. George Elliott Clarke identifies the literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts." "Scholarly and sophisticated, the survey cites and interprets the works of several major African-Canadian writers, including Andre Alexis, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Claire Harris, and M. NourbeSe Philip. In so doing, Clarke demonstrates that African-Canadian writers and critics explore the tensions that exist between notions of universalism and black nationalism, liberalism and conservatism. These tensions are revealed in the literature that Clarke argues to be - paradoxically - uniquely Canadian and proudly apart from a mainstream national identity."--Jacket
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xii, 491 pages ; 26 cm
9780802043764, 9780802081919, 0802043763, 0802081916
49305004
Contesting a model blackness: a meditation on African-Canadian African Americanism, or the structures of African-Canadianité
Must all blackness be American? Locating Canada in Borden's 'Tightrope time, ' or nationalizing Gilroy's The black Atlantic
The career of black English in Nova Scotia: a literary sketch
The birth and rebirth of Africadian literature
Syl Cheney-Coker's Nova Scotia, or the limits of pan-Africanism
Toward a conservative modernity: cultural nationalism in contemporary Acadian and Africadian poetry
Liberalism and its discontents: reading black and white in contemporary Québécois texts
Treason of the black intellectuals?
Canadian biraciality and its 'zebra' poetics
Clarke versus Clarke: Tory elitism in Austin Clarke's short fiction
Harris, Philip, Brand: three authors in search of literate criticism
No language is neutral: seizing English for ourselves
The complex face of black Canada
Viewing African Canada
The death and rebirth of Africadian nationalism
An unprejudiced view of two Africadian poets
Reading Ward's "Blind man's blues'
African-islanders
Another great thing
Growing up black in Alberta
Toward a black women's Canadian history
Love which is insight
The outraged citizen-poet speaks out
A primer of African-Canadian literature
Africana Canadiana: a select bibliography of literature by African-Canadian authors, 1785-2001, in English, French, and translation