Directions Home : : Approaches to African-Canadian Literature / / George Elliott Clarke.
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (352 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Divagation - Approaching African-Canadian Literature (Again)
- Passport
- 1. 'This is no hearsay': Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives
- 2. A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson: Two Afro-New Brunswick Responses to 'The Black Atlantic'
- 3. Introducing a Distinct Genre of African-Canadian Literature: The Church Narrative
- 4. Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd
- 5. Seeing Through Race: Surveillance of Black Males in Jessome, Satirizing Black Stereotypes in James
- 6. Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African- Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angélique
- 7. Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections
- 8. The Idea of Europe in African- Canadian Literature
- 9. Does (Afro-) Caribbean- Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean?
- 10. Voluptuous Rapine: The Viscous Economy of 'Vice' in the Short Fiction of H. Nigel Thomas and Althea Prince
- 11. Repatriating Arthur Nortje
- 12. Locating the Early Dionne Brand: Landing a Voice
- 13. Maxine Tynes: A Sounding and a Hearing
- 14. Bring da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, Chez d'bi. young and Oni Joseph
- 15. Frederick Ward: Writing as Jazz
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Permissions
- Name index