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

Origination

Acknowledgements

Permissions

Divagation: Foreward

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 Angéique

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

Compass: Bibliography

George Elliott Clarke is E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.