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100 1 _aSiemerling, Winfried,
245 1 4 _aThe black Atlantic reconsidered :
_bBlack Canadian writing, cultural history, and the presence of the past /
_cWinfried Siemerling.
246 3 0 _aBlack Canadian writing, cultural history, and the presence of the past
260 _aLondon:
_bMcGill-Queen's University Press;
_c2015.
300 _axiv, 545 pages ;
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 485-522) and index.
505 0 _aIntroduction: 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.
520 _aThe 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.
650 0 _aCanadian literature
650 0 _aCanadian literature
650 0 _aBlack people in literature.
650 0 _aCulture in literature.
650 0 _aHistory in literature.
650 0 _aTransnationalism in literature.
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