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The Black tile in Canada's mosaic has long been neglected - in historiography, literary criticism and public discourse. African-Canadian literature sets out to correct this absence. This study provides an in-depth look into the fiction of one of African-Canadian literature's foremost writers, Lawrence Hill. His novels provide a counter-memory, an antidote to the forgetfulness and neglect which often characterize Canada's attitude towards its Black minority both past and present. Dominant collective memory versions are thus corrected to reflect a more faithful Canadian mosaic. Whether it is the enslavement of Blacks in Canada, de facto segregation or racial profiling - Hill narrates histories which have rarely been told before. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hill's historical fictions.
List of contents
Contents: Collective memory - Maurice Halbwachs - Blacks in Canada - Black Loyalists - African-Canadian literature - Lawrence Hill's historical fiction - Faction vs. Historiographic Metafiction vs. Documentary Novel - The Slave Narrative - «The Book of Negroes» - «Any Known Blood» - «Some Great Thing» - Interview Lawrence Hill - Interview George Elliott Clarke.
About the author
Christian J. Krampe taught North American literature and culture at the University of Trier (Germany). He now teaches English and Social Sciences at a high school in Westphalia. His publications include articles on Canadian and US literature as well as teaching English as a foreign language.
