African Canadian novelists and poets discuss the complexities of the writing experience. Apart from identifying how the writers geographical and social origins have influenced their work, the questions deliberately avoid autobiography. Instead, these writers respond to the exigencies of craft, the manipulations of publishers, the criticism of readers, and the absence of a clearly identifiable market for their works.Austin Clarke, Bernadette Dyer, Althea Prince, Afua Cooper, M. NourbeSe Philip, Cecil Foster, Lawrence Hill, George Elliott Clarke, Wayde Compton, Robert Sandiford, Suzette Mayr, Claire Harris, Pamela Mordecai, and Ayanna Black.
Things started to fall apart at home when my brother, Jaja, did not go to communion and Papa flung his heavy missal across the room and broke the ?gurines on the etagere...
Ontario's African-Canadian Heritage is composed of the collected works of Professor Fred Landon, who for more than 60 years wrote about African-Canadian history. The selected ...
A glorious, groundbreaking celebration of Black sensuality--short stories, poems, essays, folk tales, and letters--ranging from the lyrical to the lascivious, from the prurient to the provocative...
Colonialism/Postcolonialism is a remarkably comprehensive yet accessible guide to the historical and theoretical dimensions of colonial and postcolonial discourses...
Called "the 21st-century daughter of Chinua Achebe" by The Washington Post, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie certainly lives up to the hype in her second novel, Half a Yellow Sun. She wowed us with this transcendent tale about war, loyalty, brutality, and love in modern Africa. While painting a searing portrait of the tragedy that took place in Biafra during the 1960s, her story finds its true heart in the intimacy of three ordinary lives buffeted by the winds of fate. Her tale is hauntingly evocative and impossible to forget.
A historical survey covering the black experience in Canada from the introduction of slavery in 1628 to the wave of Caribbean immigration in the 1950s, The Blacks in Canada: A History ...
The role of Black women in Canadian history is largely unacknowledged, supporting the assumption that Black people and racism are recent arrivals to the country...
At the end of Not a Day Goes By, the terminally bisexual John Basil Henderson declares: Im back, in full form. And Im out there. Roamin. And switching lanes...
Though education and publishing are increasingly welcoming to African-American authors, there is little attention to educating, supporting and sustaining their writing processes...
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