The Black Prairie Archives

An Anthology
Herausgeber: Vernon, Karina

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A selection of writing from black prairie authors, ranging from never-before published work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. It establishes a new black prairie literary tradition while transforming inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Seitenzahl: 580
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 152mm x 38mm
• Gewicht: 885g
• ISBN-13: 9781771123747
• ISBN-10: 1771123745
• Artikelnr.: 51977493

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Daniel T. Williams [date unknown -1880]
"Notebook 1872-1875." Letter to Hudson's Bay Company Factor, George
Kennedy, April 12, 1873
Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd [1870-1915]
"To the Electorate of the District of Kinistino," 1905 Letters to The
Melfort Moon
Mildred Lewis Ware [1871-1905]
Three Letters
William Sylvester Alpheus Beal [1874-1968]
from Memoir of the Swan River Valley, Manitoba
3 Glass-plate photographs
Alice Ethel Lewis [1886-1960]
"In Loving Memory of Alberta"
Jefferson Davis Edwards [1888-1979]
"There Was a Cloud Over Amber Valley," from The Window of Our Memories
John Bell Bowden [1888-1982]
"Always Be a Factor in the Community!"
Sylvester Long [1890-1932]
"My Trail Upward," from Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian
Chief
"Canoe Song"
"Death Song of Long Lance"
Rosa Shannon [c.1880-1931]
"We Gave Our Lives to This Part of the Country," from The Window of Our
Memories
Martha Edwards [1890-1977]
"That Is What Pioneers Had to Go Through," from The Window of Our Memories
Amanda Janet (Nettie) Ware [1893-1989]
"John Ware"
E. A. Cobbs [dates unknown]
"This Bias Was Good, for It Caused the Black People to Fight"
Ellis Hooks [1907-1979]
"The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty: I Wanted the World to Know,"
from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Oral History Project
Luther Gerard [1914-2004]
"Community Spirit"
Lloyd Mayes [1916-1972?]
"Homebrew," from North of the Gully
Goldie Gordon [dates unknown]
"Even the Bad Was Good," from North of the Gully
Gwen Hooks [1918-]
from The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black Settler
Willa R. Dallard [1898-1988]
"Memories of My Father: The Late Willis Bowen of Amber Valley"
Woody Strode [1914-1994]
"Mixed Breed"
"A Hero in Dogtown"
Clinton Murphy [1926-2004]
"Ode to the Amber Valley Baseball Team"
Fil Fraser [1932-]
from Alberta's Camelot: Culture & the Arts in the Lougheed Years
Claire Harris [1937-]
"Backstage at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary," from She
Addena Sumter-Freitag [1944-]
from Stay Black & Die
Linus Tongwo Asong [1947-2012]
from No Way to Die
Archie Crail [1948-]
"An Election"
Nigel Darbasie [1950-]
"Our Subdivision
"Pan Man"
"New Terra"
Tololwa M. Mollel [1952-]
"Feasting on Words"
The Orphan Boy
F. B. André [1955-]
"Is There Someone You Can Call?"
Cheryl Foggo [1956-]
"The Kind of Black People That We Are," from Pourin' Down Rain
from John Ware Reimagined
Margaret Robinson-Gudmundson [1957-]
"The Severance"
George Bwanika Seremba [1958-]
from Come Good Rain
Suzette Mayr [1967-]
"His Own Ending," from Monoceros
"I Am the Architect of My Life," from Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of
Crawley Hall
Minister Faust [1969-]
from The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
from The Alchemists of Kush
Troy Burle Bailey [c.1960s-]
from The Pierre Bonga Loops
Sheila Addiscott [1965-]
"Coloured"
Dawn Carter [1968-]
"Restoration"
A Monumental Love"
"Get into My Car"
Bertrand Bickersteth [1969-]
"I Look at My Hand"
"What We Used to Call It"
"We, Too"
Deanna Bowen [1969-]
"sum of the parts: what can be named"
Valerie Mason-John [1969-]
from Borrowed Body
Wakefield Brewster [1973-]
"Human"
"In Short"
Ian Samuels [1975-]
from The Ubiquitous Big
Various writers
from Black Pioneer Centennial: A Little Taste of Soul (2005)
Kaie Kellough [1975-]
"boy hood dub II"
"night gallery"
from Creole Continuum
from Accordéon
Esi Edugyan [1977-]
"Encountering Aster," from The Second Life of Samuel Tyne
from Half Blood Blues
Nehal El Hadi [1978-]
"La Puerta"
Nestor Wynrush (Elliott Walsh) [1978-]
"Winnipeg South Blues"
"Ole Mine Town"
Kevan Anthony Cameron ("Scruffmouth") [1979-]
"I Am a Claim"
Lisa Codrington [1982-]
"The Red Woman"
Michelle Jean-Paul [1985-]
"Learning to Love Me"
Ahmed Ali ("Knowmadic") [1984-]
"Child Soldier"
Titilope Sonuga [1985-]
from Down to Earth
Marika Schwandt [1985?-]
"Mulatto Nation"
Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton) [1986-]
"Oliver Square"
"House Music"
"How Black?"
Khodi Dill [1987-]
"Atikameksheng
"Grey"
"Ghost of Billie Holiday"
Young Kidd (Frankie Fontaine) [1988-]
"Wonderful Winnipeg"
"Hometown"
Hot Dogg (Mijok Lang [birth date unknown]
"Letter to God"
Miranda Martini [1990-]
"The Drinking Gourd: Three Tales"