Directions Home : Approaches to African-Canadian Literature.

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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Main Author: Clarke, George Elliott
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2012
Edition:2nd ed.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Divagation: Approaching African-Canadian Literature (Again)
  • PASSPORT: ESSAYS
  • 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
  • A
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  • C
  • D
  • E
  • F
  • G
  • H
  • I
  • J
  • K
  • L
  • M
  • N
  • O
  • P
  • Q
  • R
  • S
  • T
  • U
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