The black Atlantic reconsidered : Black Canadian writing, cultural history, and the presence of the past /

Siemerling, Winfried,

The black Atlantic reconsidered : Black Canadian writing, cultural history, and the presence of the past / Black Canadian writing, cultural history, and the presence of the past Winfried Siemerling. - London: McGill-Queen's University Press; 2015. - xiv, 545 pages ;

Includes bibliographical references (pages 485-522) and index.

Introduction: modernity and Canadian time-spaces of the black Atlantic -- Slavery and early black Canadian writing -- The black Canadian nineteenth century -- Slavery, the black Canadian nineteenth century, and Caribbean contexts in contemporary black Canadian writing -- Other black Canadas -- Coda: other Canadas, other Americas, the black Atlantic reconsidered.

The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroe" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers ... -- Provided by publishers.

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Canadian literature
Canadian literature
Black people in literature.
Culture in literature.
History in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.