The black Atlantic reconsidered : Black Canadian writing, cultural history, and the presence of the past /
Winfried Siemerling.
- Montreal [Quebec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource (xiv, 545 pages)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Chapter 1 Introduction: Modernity and Canadian Time-Spaces of the Black Atlantic -- PART I EARLY TESTIMONY AND THE BLACK CANADIAN NINETEENTH CENTURY. chapter 2 Slavery and Early Black Canadian Writing -- chapter 3 The Black Canadian Nineteenth Century PART II THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST. chapter 4 Slavery, the Black Canadian Nineteenth Century, and Caribbean Contexts in Contemporary Black Canadian Writing -- chapter 5 Other Black Canadas -- chapter 6 Coda: Other Canadas, Other Americas, the Black Atlantic Reconsidered -- Appendix: Timeline.
A survey of English and French black Canadian writing and its transnational connections from the eighteenth century to the present.
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Canadian literature--History and criticism. Black people in literature. Culture in literature. History in literature. Transnationalism in literature. Canadian literature--Black Canadian authors--History and criticism.