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Book SynopsisDirections Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora.
Trade Review'Clark's research is impressive and humbling. Yet this is not the only reason why this book is a must have and must read.' -- Alessandra Capperdoni Canadian Literature, number 217 summer 2013
Table of ContentsOrigination Acknowledgements Permissions Divagation: Foreward 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 Ang ique 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 Compass: Bibliography
