{"product_id":"directions-home-approaches-to-african-canadian-literature-paperback-softback-9780802094254","title":"Directions Home; Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (Paperback \/ softback) 9780802094254","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eDirections Home\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eApproaches to African-Canadian Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGeorge Elliott Clarke (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780802094254\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 26 September 2012\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e336 pages\u003cbr\u003e24.6 x 17.3 x 2.4 cm, 0.62 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Clark’s research is impressive and humbling. Yet this is not the only reason why this book is a must have and must read.’\u003c\/p\u003e - Alessandra Capperdoni (Canadian Literature, number 217 summer 2013)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe latest work from pioneering scholar George Elliott Clarke, \u003cem\u003eDirections Home\u003c\/em\u003e is the most comprehensive analysis of African-Canadian texts and writers to date. Building on the discoveries of his critically acclaimed \u003cem\u003eOdysseys Home\u003c\/em\u003e, Clarke passionately analyses the beautiful complexities and haunting conundrums of this important body of literature.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDirections Home\u003c\/em\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith its national, bilingual, and historical perspectives, \u003cem\u003eDirections Home\u003c\/em\u003e is an essential guide to African-Canadian literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eOrigination\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePermissions\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDivagation: Foreward\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApproaching African-Canadian Literature (Again)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePassport: Essays\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. “This is no hearsay”: Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson: Two Afro-New Brunswick Responses to “The Black Atlantic”\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Introducing a Distinct Genre of African-Canadian Literature: The Church Narrative\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Seeing Through Race: Surveillance of Black Males in Jessome, Satirizing Black Stereotypes in James\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African-Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angéique\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. The Idea of Europe in African-Canadian Literature\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Does Afro-Caribbean-Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Voluptuous Rapine: The Viscous Economy of ‘Vice’ in the Short Fiction of H. Nigel Thomas and Althea Prince\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Repatriating Arthur Nortje\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Locating the Early Dionne Brand: Landing a Voice\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13. Maxine Tynes: A Sounding and a Hearing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14. Bring Da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, chez d’bi young and Oni Joseph\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15. Frederick Ward: Writing as Jazz\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCompass: Bibliography\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52545907032344,"sku":"9780802094254","price":31.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/directions-home-approaches-to-african-canadian-literature-paperback-softback-9780802094254","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}