Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature

Summary: Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies and critiques several of its key creators and texts.

Record details

ISBN: 0802043763
ISBN: 9780802043764
ISBN: 0802081916
ISBN: 9780802081919
ISBN: 1442655275
ISBN: 9781442655270
ISBN: 1442659866
ISBN: 9781442659865
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 491 pages)
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Publisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Contesting a model blackness: a meditation on African-Canadian African Americanism, or the structures of African-Canadianité -- Must all blackness be America? 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.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2016).