Blackening Canada

Paul Barrett is a Banting postdoctoral fellow in the Department of English and Cultural Studies at McMaster University.

• Introduction: Texts and Contexts of Blackening1. Temporalities of Becoming in Dionne Brand’s thirsty2. “I’m Running For My Life”: Mobility in Austin Clarke’s Recent Fiction3. Writing Life-Worlds: Canadian History and the Representation of Albert Johnson4. Race, Heritage, and Recognition in Tessa McWatt’s Out of My Skin5. Concluding6. Re-Beginning: “Blah, Blah, Blah.” Emergent Critical Multiculturalism in Brampton, Ontario

‘In this brilliant book, Barrett manages to confront important issues of race in Canada…. This is a volume for those interested in race and multiculturalism anywhere, not Just in Canada. Highly recommended.’- B Almon (Choice Magazine vol 53:04:2015) ‘Blackening Canada is an insightful addition to the discourse on critical multiculturalism. Barrett’s argument is interdisciplinary, critical, compelling and wide-ranging.’- Sharon Morgan Beckford (Topia Number 36: Fall 2016) ‘Blackening Canada is an invaluable addition to black literary criticism and necessary reading for scholars working in the field.’- Darcy Ballantyne (University of Toronto Quarterly vol 86:03:2017)