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Directions home : approaches to African-Canadian literature
\"The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of 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. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson. With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.\" --Publisher's description.
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Directions Home
The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home , Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of 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. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson.
With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.
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The Voices of African Canada
During my 2013-14 term as the twenty-seventh William Lyon Mackenzie King Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University, I was privileged to host a conference, nigh the terminus of my tenure, which I titled \"International Perspectives on African-Canadian Literature.\" It was my aspiration to see the presented papers published and to enjoy a couple of days of hobnobbing with other scholars and intellectuals intrigued by the whole idea of African Canadian literature—for that rubric entails a meditation upon an African diasporic culture that is not merely a pallid imitation of the globally recognized African American culture adjacent. So, I am grateful to African American Review for, again, expressing interest in Black Canada, this \"Nordic\" black culture of the Americas, which is also in part a product of the enslavement of Africans, conducted by British and French imperialists in their colonization of the northern half of North America (1600s-1834). Of course, African Canada is also a product of the antislavery and antiracist outmigration of African Americans from what became the United States. Nevertheless, this polity begins with slavery—I mean, as part of the first true instance of globalization—the Atlantic slave trade, which transported Africans from Old World to \"New\" (Turtle Island), on routes that plunked folks down not only in the Caribbean and the deep-south Ethiopian (Atlantic) Ocean (see St. Helena, for instance), but also in Arabia, Mauritius, and throughout the American continents, from Hudson's Bay to Argentina.
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