Call and Response-ability

Karina Vernon (Editor) Karina Vernon is associate professor of English at the University of Toronto, Scarborough.Winfried Siemerling (Editor) Winfried Siemerling is professor of English at the University of Waterloo, an associate of the W.E.B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, and co-editor of Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations.

“Call and Response-ability is a stunning achievement and an invaluable contribution to the archive of Black Canadian literature and art. Offering a set of fresh, honest, provocative reflections, the book illuminates Black art as a deeply relational practice. It is a call to attunement to a different kind of sound and storytelling, an invitation to listen and listen well.” - Andrea Davis, author of Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation

• Figures xiAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 3WINFRIED SIEMERLING AND KARINA VERNONPart One   Artists on Audience1 All That Grooving 45LILLIAN ALLEN2 Writing Is a Social Act 48WAYDE COMPTON3 Receiver? 51KAIE KELLOUGH4 Wolves and Jellyfish: Inside Flipping Outside Flipping Inside 56SUZETTE MAYR5 Notes on Audience 60SYLVIA D. HAMILTON6 World Making, Truth Telling, and the Work of a Poet 65JULIANE OKOT BITEKPart Two   Writing and Theatre7 Who’s Listening? Artists, Audiences & Language 71M. NOURBESE PHILIP8 M. NourbeSe Philip’s Antiphonal Poetics 88KYLE KINASCHUK9 Teachable Moments: Invitations to Thinking and Community in Cheryl Foggo’s Pourin’ Down Rain and David Chariandy’s Brother 112LAUREANNE WILLEMS10 “Radically Reconfigured Spaces and Relations”: Reading “Radical Intimacy” in David Chariandy’s Brother 133VALERIE UHER11 “Volumes of Ambivalence”: An Exploration of Market Aesthetics and Canada’s Literary Mainstream in David Chariandy’s Brother 154JP MONGEAU12 The Tragedy of Black Citizenship? Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems and George & Rue 177KATJA SARKOWSKY13 Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women 197NAILA KELETA-MAE14 “Evidence we were here”: Reflections on Black Canadian Theatre and Audience 217DJANET SEARS AND SIGNY LYNCHPart Three   Visual and Sonic Art15 The Street Poetics of #BlackLivesMatter-Toronto 231TAVLEEN PUREWAL16 Contrast and Share: Reading Black Lives in Black Photojournalism in 1970s “Multicultural” Toronto 254CHERYL THOMPSON17 Imaging Otherwise: Ella Cooper’s Photo-Video Art 278HANNAH GARDINER18 From Site/Sight to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia D. Hamilton’s The Little Black School House 290WINFRIED SIEMERLING19 Turntable Poetry, Mixed-Race, and Schizophonophilia 306WAYDE COMPTON20 Rhythms Riddims of Relation 319MARK V. CAMPBELLPart Four   Teaching Black Canadian Works of Art21 Reading and Listening to Black Canadian Literature: My Route 337LESLIE SANDERS22 Introduction to the Syllabus: Black Literatures and Cultures in Canada 348DARCY BALLANTYNE23 “This Part of the Country”: Teaching Archives of Black Prairie Freedom and Futures 360CORNEL BOGLE, COURTENAY CHAN, MIRIAM MABROUK, JUMOKE VERISSIMO, AND TERESA ZACKODNIK24 Reading and Listening Intently to David Chariandy’s Brother on the Prairie Campus 375JOANNE LEOW25 Canadian Literature Through and Beyond the Black Atlantic 390JENNIFER BLAIR26 Hemispheric Approaches to Black Canadian Literatures 408MAANDEEQ MOHAMED27 The Outside of the Inside: Blackness and the Remaking of Canadian Institutional Life 414KARINA VERNON28 Teaching (Black) Canadian Literature in the Netherlands 424HANS BAK, JOCHEM RIESTHUIS, AND JEANETTE DEN TOONDERCoda 433KARINA VERNON AND WINFRIED SIEMERLINGReferences 441Contributors 471Index 479