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The Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Canadian literary studies.
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Introduction: Black Canadian Literature and the World
Andrea A. Davis
PART ONE: ESTABLISHING A CANON1. The Code That Limits: Black Canadian Anthologizing and Anthologies
Sharon Morgan Beckford
2. Black Small Press Literary Publishing in English Canada
Stephen Cain
3. Palimpsests of Nation & Diaspora: Black Writing in Canada and Canadian Literatures
Paul Barrett
4. Afropolitanism and the African Immigrant in the African-Canadian Literary Canon
Amatoritsero Ede
PART TWO: BLACK LITERARY GEOGRAPHIES5. Black Maritime-Africadian-Literature: An Introduction
George Elliott Clarke
6. Black Canadian Literature in Francophone Quebec
Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx
7. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal
Winfried Siemerling
8. Writing Toronto
Darcy Ballantyne
9. From Absence to Abundance: Recovering the Black Prairie Archive, 1872-2023
Karina Vernon
10. 'It Is Arrogant to Disappear:' A Humble Re-Visioning of Black Literature in British Columbia
David Chariandy
PART THREE: GENRE AND MODES OF WRITING11. Slave Narratives as a Transnational Genre
Nele Sawallisch
12. Post-Slavery and the Making of the Black Canadian Novel, 1850s-1990
Jennifer Harris
13. African-Canadian Poetry in English: 1890-2000
George Elliott Clarke
14. Black Canadian Children's Literature: Evolution, Writers, and Impact
Janet Seow
15. Writing Black Canada: An Unfinished Project of Freedom
Andrea A. Davis
PART FOUR: PERFORMANCE AND VOICE16. Speak OurStory! 12 Poet-to-Poet Conversations on the Legacy, the Now, and Future of
Black Canadian Dub Poetry and Spoken Word
Wendy Motion Brathwaite
17. National and Diasporic Dialogues: Black Canadian Drama and Theatre
Jacqueline Petropolous
18. Rising, Lifting, Resisting: A History of Black Dramatic Feature Filmmaking in Canada
Andrea Medovarski
PART FIVE: MAJOR WRITERS OF INFLUENCE19. Marie-Célie Agnant
Susan Ireland and Patrice Proulx
20. "The Abacus of her Eyelids": Dionne Brand's Poetics
Christina Sharpe
21. Dionne Brand: Ambivalent Novelizations
Eshe Mercer-James
22. After Canadian Multiculturalism: David Chariandy
Rinaldo Walcott
23. Austin Clarke's "Out-a-Order" Poetics and the Archiving of Black Lives
Michael A. Bucknor
24. George Elliott Clarke: A Biocritical Examination
Joseph J. Pivato
25. Wayde Compton: From Archive to Innovation in the Black British Columbian Lived
Imaginary
Heather Smyth
26. Esi Edugyan: Black Fugitivity and the Possibility of a Second Life
Pilar Cuder-Domínguez
27. Lawrence Hill's Critical Aesthetics of Cultural Resilience
Ana María Fraile-Marcos
28. "Magic in the Real": The Speculative Engagements of Nalo Hopkinson
Maureen Moynagh
29. Dany Laferrière
Claire Reising
30. The Multiplicities of Émile Ollivier: Haitian Tragedies and Montreal Crossroads
Amanda Perry
31. Disturbing the Peace, Caring for the Word: M. NourbeSe Philip
Kate Siklosi
32. Makeda Silvera: Prioritizing Marginalized Voices
Eshe Mercer-James
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Andrea A. Davis is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and Associate Vice President: Equity Diversity, and Inclusion at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to this, she was Professor of Black Cultures of the Americas at York University where she founded the Black Canadian Studies Certificate. Co-editor of the
Journal of Canadian Studies, she has published widely on the literary productions of Black women in the Americas and is the author of
Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation (2022). Her current book project is an autofictional exploration of women's journeys in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries across the Atlantic Ocean and Sargasso Sea.
Leslie Sanders is University Professor Emerita in the Department of Humanities at York University. She is the author of
The Development of Black Theater in America (1988), a general editor of the
Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works (2004), and editor for two volumes of plays. She has published on such Black Canadian writers as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, Claire Harris, George Elliot Clarke, Maxine Tynes, and Djanet Sears. She created African Canadian Online, the first available database of African Canadian artists and their work in literature, film, music, dance, theatre, and visual art.
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The Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Canadian literary studies.
