Directions Home : Approaches to African-Canadian Literature.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Divagation: 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 Angélique -- 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 -- Bibliography -- Permissions -- Name Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.

Directions Homeexplores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora.

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