2012

 

 

 

 

Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke

Editor: Joseph Pivato

Publisher: Guernica Editions

Contributors: Jennifer Andrews, Diana Brydon, Maristela Campos, Wayde Compton, Susan Knutson, Katherine Larson, Alexander MacLeod, Giulio Marra, Katherine McLeod, Amanda Montague, Maureen Moynagh, Joseph Pivato, H. Nigel Thomas, and Lydia Wilkinson 

Keywords: George Elliott Clarke; African-Canadian literature; Nova Scotia society; anti-racism; Black Studies; ethnic minority writing; experimenting with literary genres; theories of Black writing

About the Book: 

This book is the first essay collection devoted to the work of George Elliott Clarke, a writer whose critical and literary interventions in Canadian and post-colonial literatures merits study. As a writer and scholar, Clarke has contributed to the democratization of how we read Canada's history, languages and diverse cultures. In works like Execution Poems, Beatrice Chancy, George and Rue, and Whylah Falls, Clarke confronts questions about race, ethnic identity, and the position of minority women. His scholarship also gives us insights into the racialization of ethnic minority people in North America and Europe. I have edited this collection because I admire Clarke as a person and as an author.