The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature

Introduction: Black Canadian Literature and the World

Andrea A. Davis

PART ONE: ESTABLISHING A CANON

1. The Code That Limits: Black Canadian Anthologizing and Anthologies

Sharon Morgan Beckford

2. Black Small Press Literary Publishing in English Canada

Stephen Cain

3. Palimpsests of Nation & Diaspora: Black Writing in Canada and Canadian Literatures

Paul Barrett

4. Afropolitanism and the African Immigrant in the African-Canadian Literary Canon

Amatoritsero Ede

PART TWO: BLACK LITERARY GEOGRAPHIES

5. Black Maritime-Africadian-Literature: An Introduction

George Elliott Clarke

6. Black Canadian Literature in Francophone Quebec

Susan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx

7. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone Montreal

Winfried Siemerling

8. Writing Toronto

Darcy Ballantyne

9. From Absence to Abundance: Recovering the Black Prairie Archive, 1872-2023

Karina Vernon

10. 'It Is Arrogant to Disappear:' A Humble Re-Visioning of Black Literature in British Columbia

David Chariandy

PART THREE: GENRE AND MODES OF WRITING

11. Slave Narratives as a Transnational Genre

Nele Sawallisch

12. Post-Slavery and the Making of the Black Canadian Novel, 1850s-1990

Jennifer Harris

13. African-Canadian Poetry in English: 1890-2000

George Elliott Clarke

14. Black Canadian Children's Literature: Evolution, Writers, and Impact

Janet Seow

15. Writing Black Canada: An Unfinished Project of Freedom

Andrea A. Davis

PART FOUR: PERFORMANCE AND VOICE

16. Speak OurStory! 12 Poet-to-Poet Conversations on the Legacy, the Now, and Future of

Black Canadian Dub Poetry and Spoken Word

Wendy Motion Brathwaite

17. National and Diasporic Dialogues: Black Canadian Drama and Theatre

Jacqueline Petropolous

18. Rising, Lifting, Resisting: A History of Black Dramatic Feature Filmmaking in Canada

Andrea Medovarski

PART FIVE: MAJOR WRITERS OF INFLUENCE

19. Marie-Celie Agnant

Susan Ireland and Patrice Proulx

20. "The Abacus of her Eyelids": Dionne Brand's Poetics

Christina Sharpe

21. Dionne Brand: Ambivalent Novelizations

Eshe Mercer-James

22. After Canadian Multiculturalism: David Chariandy

Rinaldo Walcott

23. Austin Clarke's "Out-a-Order" Poetics and the Archiving of Black Lives

Michael A. Bucknor

24. George Elliott Clarke: A Biocritical Examination

Joseph J. Pivato

25. Wayde Compton: From Archive to Innovation in the Black British Columbian Lived

Imaginary

Heather Smyth

26. Esi Edugyan: Black Fugitivity and the Possibility of a Second Life

Pilar Cuder-Dominguez

27. Lawrence Hill's Critical Aesthetics of Cultural Resilience

Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos

28. "Magic in the Real": The Speculative Engagements of Nalo Hopkinson

Maureen Moynagh

29. Dany Laferriere

Claire Reising

30. The Multiplicities of Emile Ollivier: Haitian Tragedies and Montreal Crossroads

Amanda Perry

31. Disturbing the Peace, Caring for the Word: M. NourbeSe Philip

Kate Siklosi

32. Makeda Silvera: Prioritizing Marginalized Voices

Eshe Mercer-James