The success of George Elliott Clarke's anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing. In this exciting, provocative new collection, literary journalist Donna Bailey Nurse provides an up-to-date and fresh perspective on this vibrant, significant, and thriving literature. Drawing on fiction, poetry, and memoir, this anthology brings together an impressively varied selection of outstanding work by both well-known writers and new voices. Donna Bailey Nurse's lively and invaluable…mehr
The success of George Elliott Clarke's anthology Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature, published a decade ago, demonstrated the growing interest in black Canadian writing. In this exciting, provocative new collection, literary journalist Donna Bailey Nurse provides an up-to-date and fresh perspective on this vibrant, significant, and thriving literature. Drawing on fiction, poetry, and memoir, this anthology brings together an impressively varied selection of outstanding work by both well-known writers and new voices. Donna Bailey Nurse's lively and invaluable introduction deftly explores the various themes and motifs that define and illuminate the meaning of being black, while tracing the evolution of this influential literature through colonialism, post-colonialism, and decolonization. This engaging collection celebrates a body of writing that holds an increasingly visible and important place within Canadian literature, and stands among the finest literary anthologies in the country.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Donna Bailey Nurse is a literary journalist, a lecturer, a critic for BookTelevision, and the author of What’s a Black Critic to Do?: Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers. She is a frequent book reviewer for the Globe and Mail, the National Post, the Toronto Star, and the Montreal Gazette, and her articles exploring race and culture have appeared in these publications as well as in Maclean’s, Publishers Weekly, the Washington Post, and the Boston Globe. She lives in Toronto.
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Introduction by Donna Bailey Nurse Claire Harris (b. 1937) Untitled Travelling to Find a Remedy Towards the Colour of Summer Kay in Summer Émile Ollivier (1940-2002) from Mother Solitude Olive Senior (b. 1941) Do Angels Wear Brassieres? Meditation on Yellow The Pull of Birds Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird Pamela Mordecai (b. 1942) Poems Grow Convent Girl The Angel in the House Althea Prince (b. 1945) from Loving This Man Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) What We Carried That Carried Us Never Expect Questions for Marcus Mosiah Garvey from From Harvey River: A Memoir Rachel Manley (b. 1947) from Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood M. NourbeSe Philip (b. 1947) Salmon Courage Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones The Catechist Cashew #4 H. Nigel Thomas (b. 1947) How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow? Honor Ford-Smith (b. 1951) from My Mother’s Last Dance Dany Laferrière (b. 1953) from How to Make Love to a Negro from An Aroma of Coffee Okey Chigbo (b. 1955) The Housegirl Makeda Silvera (b. 1955) from The Heart Does Not Bend André Alexis (b. 1957) from Childhood Afua Cooper (b. 1957) On the Way to Sunday School Memories Have Tongue Christopher Columbus Lawrence Hill (b. 1957) from Any Known Blood Tessa McWatt (b. 1959) from Dragons Cry George Elliott Clarke (b. 1960) The Wisdom of Shelley King Bee Blues from George & Rue Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) from Midnight Robber David N. Odhiambo (b. 1965) from Kipligat’s Chance Suzette Mayr (b. 1967) from The Widows Robert Edison Sandiford (b. 1968) from Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle Ken Wiwa (b. 1968) from the Preface to In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy Shane Book (b. 1970) HNIC The One Flagelliform: #9 Flagelliform: Fact Flagelliform: Ayahuasca Motion (b. 1970) Girl I-Land Wayde Compton (b. 1972) Legba, Landed Declaration of the Halfrican Nation To Poitier Kim Barry Brunhuber (b. 1973) from Kameleon Man Jemeni (b. 1974) The Black Speaker Esi Edugyan (b. 1977) from The Second Life of Samuel Tyne About the Authors Suggested Reading A Note on the Text and Acknowledgements
Introduction by Donna Bailey Nurse Claire Harris (b. 1937) Untitled Travelling to Find a Remedy Towards the Colour of Summer Kay in Summer Émile Ollivier (1940-2002) from Mother Solitude Olive Senior (b. 1941) Do Angels Wear Brassieres? Meditation on Yellow The Pull of Birds Thirteen Ways of Looking at Blackbird Pamela Mordecai (b. 1942) Poems Grow Convent Girl The Angel in the House Althea Prince (b. 1945) from Loving This Man Lorna Goodison (b. 1947) What We Carried That Carried Us Never Expect Questions for Marcus Mosiah Garvey from From Harvey River: A Memoir Rachel Manley (b. 1947) from Drumblair: Memories of a Jamaican Childhood M. NourbeSe Philip (b. 1947) Salmon Courage Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones The Catechist Cashew #4 H. Nigel Thomas (b. 1947) How Loud Can the Village Cock Crow? Honor Ford-Smith (b. 1951) from My Mother’s Last Dance Dany Laferrière (b. 1953) from How to Make Love to a Negro from An Aroma of Coffee Okey Chigbo (b. 1955) The Housegirl Makeda Silvera (b. 1955) from The Heart Does Not Bend André Alexis (b. 1957) from Childhood Afua Cooper (b. 1957) On the Way to Sunday School Memories Have Tongue Christopher Columbus Lawrence Hill (b. 1957) from Any Known Blood Tessa McWatt (b. 1959) from Dragons Cry George Elliott Clarke (b. 1960) The Wisdom of Shelley King Bee Blues from George & Rue Nalo Hopkinson (b. 1960) from Midnight Robber David N. Odhiambo (b. 1965) from Kipligat’s Chance Suzette Mayr (b. 1967) from The Widows Robert Edison Sandiford (b. 1968) from Sand for Snow: A Caribbean-Canadian Chronicle Ken Wiwa (b. 1968) from the Preface to In the Shadow of a Saint: A Son’s Journey to Understand His Father’s Legacy Shane Book (b. 1970) HNIC The One Flagelliform: #9 Flagelliform: Fact Flagelliform: Ayahuasca Motion (b. 1970) Girl I-Land Wayde Compton (b. 1972) Legba, Landed Declaration of the Halfrican Nation To Poitier Kim Barry Brunhuber (b. 1973) from Kameleon Man Jemeni (b. 1974) The Black Speaker Esi Edugyan (b. 1977) from The Second Life of Samuel Tyne About the Authors Suggested Reading A Note on the Text and Acknowledgements
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