Africadian Atlantic Essays on George Elliott Clarke Volume 35

This collection features essays on Nova Scotia-born poet, playwright and literary critic George Elliott Clarke. Instrtumental in promoting the writing of writers of African descent, Clarke's work has won awards including the Governor General's Award for poetry. He is also the recipient of seven honorary doctorates.

About the author

This collection features essays on Nova Scotia-born poet, playwright and literary critic George Elliott Clarke, instrumental in promoting the writing of Canadian writers of African descent, has won awards including the Governor General's Award for poetry, a National Magazine Gold Medal Award for Poetry, the prestigious Trudeau Fellowship Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Achievement Award, and The Premiul Poesis (Romania). He has had poetry and plays published in Chinese, Romanian, and Italian while other works have appeared in Korean, Swedish, Finnish, French, German, Polish, and Hungarian. He is also the recipient of eight honorary doctorates. Joseph Pivato is professor of English and Comparative Literature at Athabasca University in Edmonton. His books for Guernica include: Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian-Canadian Writing (1985), Echo: Essays on Other Literatures (1994), The Anthology of Italian-Canadian Writing (1998), and Pier Giorgio Di Cicco.

Product details

• Authors: Alexander MacLeod, Joseph Pivato, Diana Brydon, Joseph Pivat
• Assisted by: Joseph Pivato (Editor)
• Publisher: Guernica Editions
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 01.10.2012
• Subject: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9781550716276
• ISBN: 978-1-55071-627-6
• Pages: 350
• Dimensions (packing): 12.7 x 20.3 x 1.3 cm
• Weight (packing): 227 g
• Series: Essential Writers > 35; Essential Writers > 35; ESSENTIAL WRITERS SERIES
• Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / African; Literature - Classics / Criticism; POETRY / American / General; LITERARY CRITICISM / Canadian; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / Historical Events