George Elliott Clarke is E.J. Pratt Professor of Canadian Literature at the University of Toronto.

• OriginationAcknowledgementsPermissionsDivagation: ForewardApproaching African-Canadian Literature (Again)Passport: Essays1. “This is no hearsay”: Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives2. A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson: Two Afro-New Brunswick Responses to “The Black Atlantic”3. Introducing a Distinct Genre of African-Canadian Literature: The Church Narrative4. Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd5. Seeing Through Race: Surveillance of Black Males in Jessome, Satirizing Black Stereotypes in James6. Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African-Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angéique7. Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections8. The Idea of Europe in African-Canadian Literature9. Does Afro-Caribbean-Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean?10. Voluptuous Rapine: The Viscous Economy of ‘Vice’ in the Short Fiction of H. Nigel Thomas and Althea Prince11. Repatriating Arthur Nortje12. Locating the Early Dionne Brand: Landing a Voice13. Maxine Tynes: A Sounding and a Hearing14. Bring Da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, chez d’bi young and Oni Joseph15. Frederick Ward: Writing as JazzNotesCompass: Bibliography

‘Clark’s research is impressive and humbling. Yet this is not the only reason why this book is a must have and must read.’- Alessandra Capperdoni (Canadian Literature, number 217 summer 2013)