Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature

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University of Toronto Press, Sep 26, 2012 - Literary Criticism - 352 pages

The latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, Directions Home is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed Odysseys Home, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature.

Directions Home explores the trajectories and tendencies of African-Canadian literature within the Canadian canon and the socio-cultural traditions of the African Diaspora. Clarke showcases the importance of little-known texts, including church histories and slave narratives, and offers studies of autobiography, crime and punishment, jazz poetics, and musical composition. The collection also includes studies of significant contemporary writers such as George Boyd and Dionne Brand, and trailblazing African-Canadian intellectuals like A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson.

With its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, Directions Home is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.

 

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About the author (2012)

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

Bibliographic information

TitleDirections Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature
AuthorGeorge Elliott Clarke
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press, 2012
ISBN1442661119, 9781442661110
Length352 pages
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Literary Criticism / Canadian
  
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