Title Odysseys home : mapping African-Canadian literature / George Elliott Clarke

Published Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 491 pages) Contents 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 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 11, 2016) Subject Black people in literature Africans in literature. Black people -- Canada -- Intellectual life Africans -- Canada -- Intellectual life Canadian literature -- Black authors -- Bibliography French-Canadian literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism Canadian literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General. Africans in literature Africans -- Intellectual life Black people in literature Black people -- Intellectual life Canadian literature -- Black authors Canada Genre/Form Bibliographies Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781442659865 1442659866 9781442655270 1442655275

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