The Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Canadian literary studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Canadian literary studies. Including historical and contemporary analysis, this volume is an essential text that maps the field over the almost 200 years of its existence across a range of genres from slave narratives to prose fiction, poetry, theatre, and dub and spoken word. It presents Black Canadian literature as encompassing a diverse set of viewpoints, approaches, and practices, touching every aspect of Canadian territory and life, and as deeply influencing debates and understandings of Black peoples far beyond its borders. This Handbook employs an interdisciplinary framework that incorporates literary, historical, geographical, and cultural analysis. This book comprising 32 chapters is organized into five sections that chart the literature's development into a recognizable canon, trace Black literary geographies across Canada from east to west, delineate the literature's various genres and expressive forms, and honor the writers and thinkers who have influenced the growth of the field. This volume's range of subject and plurality of perspectives provide an excellent resource for teachers, researchers, and students from multiple disciplines, including Canadian studies and literature, Caribbean studies, global Black studies, hemispheric studies, diaspora studies, history, and cultural studies.

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Andrea A. Davis is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and Associate Vice President: Equity Diversity, and Inclusion at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to this, she was Professor of Black Cultures of the Americas at York University where she founded the Black Canadian Studies Certificate. Co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies, she has published widely on the literary productions of Black women in the Americas and is the author of Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation (2022). Her current book project is an autofictional exploration of women's journeys in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries across the Atlantic Ocean and Sargasso Sea.

Leslie Sanders is University Professor Emerita in the Department of Humanities at York University. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America (1988), a general editor of the Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works (2004), and editor for two volumes of plays. She has published on such Black Canadian writers as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, Claire Harris, George Elliot Clarke, Maxine Tynes, and Djanet Sears. She created African Canadian Online, the first available database of African Canadian artists and their work in literature, film, music, dance, theatre, and visual art.

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The Handbook of Black Canadian Literature offers a comprehensive overview of the growing and increasingly significant field of Black Canadian literary studies.

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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-Célie 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-Domínguez

27. Lawrence Hill's Critical Aesthetics of Cultural Resilience

    Ana María Fraile-Marcos

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

    Maureen Moynagh

29. Dany Laferrière

    Claire Reising

30. The Multiplicities of Émile 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