Paul Barrett

Blackening Canada

Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 150mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9781442615762
• ISBN-10: 1442615761
• Artikelnr.: 41959498

Autorenporträt

Paul Barrett is a Banting postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Texts and Contexts of Blackening
1. Temporalities of Becoming in Dionne Brand’s thirsty
2. “I’m Running For My Life”: Mobility in Austin Clarke’s Recent Fiction
3. Writing Life-Worlds: Canadian History and the Representation of Albert
Johnson
4. Race, Heritage, and Recognition in Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin
5. Concluding
6. Re-Beginning: “Blah, Blah, Blah.” Emergent Critical Multiculturalism in
Brampton, Ontario