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Directions Home

Approaches to African-Canadian Literature

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Directions Home

Approaches to African-Canadian Literature

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Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora.

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Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Year
2017
ISBN
9781442666511
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
North American Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Divagation – Approaching African-Canadian Literature (Again)
  4. Passport
  5. 1. ‘This is no hearsay’: Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives
  6. 2. A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson: Two Afro–New Brunswick Responses to ‘The Black Atlantic’
  7. 3. Introducing a Distinct Genre of African-Canadian Literature: The Church Narrative
  8. 4. Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd
  9. 5. Seeing Through Race: Surveillance of Black Males in Jessome, Satirizing Black Stereotypes in James
  10. 6. Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African- Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angélique
  11. 7. Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections
  12. 8. The Idea of Europe in African- Canadian Literature
  13. 9. Does (Afro-) Caribbean- Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean?
  14. 10. Voluptuous Rapine: The Viscous Economy of ‘Vice’ in the Short Fiction of H. Nigel Thomas and Althea Prince
  15. 11. Repatriating Arthur Nortje
  16. 12. Locating the Early Dionne Brand: Landing a Voice
  17. 13. Maxine Tynes: A Sounding and a Hearing
  18. 14. Bring da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, Chez d’bi. young and Oni Joseph
  19. 15. Frederick Ward: Writing as Jazz
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Permissions
  23. Name index