Andrea A. Davis is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and Associate Vice President: Equity Diversity, and Inclusion at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to this, she was Professor of Black Cultures of the Americas at York University where she founded the Black Canadian Studies Certificate. Co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies, she has published widely on the literary productions of Black women in the Americas and is the author of Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation (2022). Her current book project is an autofictional exploration of women’s journeys in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries across the Atlantic Ocean and Sargasso Sea.Leslie Sanders is University Professor Emerita in the Department of Humanities at York University. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America (1988), a general editor of the Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works (2004), and editor for two volumes of plays. She has published on such Black Canadian writers as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, Claire Harris, George Elliot Clarke, Maxine Tynes, and Djanet Sears. She created African Canadian Online, the first available database of African Canadian artists and their work in literature, film, music, dance, theatre, and visual art.

• Introduction: Black Canadian Literature and the WorldAndrea A. DavisPART ONE: ESTABLISHING A CANON1. The Code That Limits: Black Canadian Anthologizing and AnthologiesSharon Morgan Beckford2. Black Small Press Literary Publishing in English CanadaStephen Cain3. Palimpsests of Nation & Diaspora: Black Writing in Canada and Canadian LiteraturesPaul Barrett4. Afropolitanism and the African Immigrant in the African-Canadian Literary CanonAmatoritsero EdePART TWO: BLACK LITERARY GEOGRAPHIES5. Black Maritime—Africadian—Literature: An IntroductionGeorge Elliott Clarke6. Black Canadian Literature in Francophone QuebecSusan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx7. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone MontrealWinfried Siemerling8. Writing TorontoDarcy Ballantyne9. From Absence to Abundance: Recovering the Black Prairie Archive, 1872–2023Karina Vernon10. ‘It Is Arrogant to Disappear:’ A Humble Re-Visioning of Black Literature in British ColumbiaDavid ChariandyPART THREE: GENRE AND MODES OF WRITING11. Slave Narratives as a Transnational GenreNele Sawallisch12. Post-Slavery and the Making of the Black Canadian Novel, 1850s–1990Jennifer Harris13. African-Canadian Poetry in English: 1890–2000George Elliott Clarke14. Black Canadian Children’s Literature: Evolution, Writers, and ImpactJanet Seow15. Writing Black Canada: An Unfinished Project of Freedom Andrea A. DavisPART FOUR: PERFORMANCE AND VOICE16. Speak OurStory! 12 Poet-to-Poet Conversations on the Legacy, the Now, and Future ofBlack Canadian Dub Poetry and Spoken WordWendy Motion Brathwaite17. National and Diasporic Dialogues: Black Canadian Drama and TheatreJacqueline Petropolous18. Rising, Lifting, Resisting: A History of Black Dramatic Feature Filmmaking in CanadaAndrea MedovarskiPART FIVE: MAJOR WRITERS OF INFLUENCE19. Marie-Célie AgnantSusan Ireland and Patrice Proulx20. “The Abacus of her Eyelids”: Dionne Brand’s PoeticsChristina Sharpe21. Dionne Brand: Ambivalent NovelizationsEshe Mercer-James22. After Canadian Multiculturalism: David ChariandyRinaldo Walcott23. Austin Clarke’s “Out-a-Order” Poetics and the Archiving of Black LivesMichael A. Bucknor24. George Elliott Clarke: A Biocritical ExaminationJoseph J. Pivato25. Wayde Compton: From Archive to Innovation in the Black British Columbian LivedImaginaryHeather Smyth26. Esi Edugyan: Black Fugitivity and the Possibility of a Second LifePilar Cuder-Domínguez27. Lawrence Hill’s Critical Aesthetics of Cultural ResilienceAna María Fraile-Marcos 28. “Magic in the Real”: The Speculative Engagements of Nalo HopkinsonMaureen Moynagh29. Dany LaferrièreClaire Reising30. The Multiplicities of Émile Ollivier: Haitian Tragedies and Montreal CrossroadsAmanda Perry31. Disturbing the Peace, Caring for the Word: M. NourbeSe PhilipKate Siklosi32. Makeda Silvera: Prioritizing Marginalized VoicesEshe Mercer-James

Andrea A. Davis is Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies and Associate Vice President: Equity Diversity, and Inclusion at Wilfrid Laurier University. Prior to this, she was Professor of Black Cultures of the Americas at York University where she founded the Black Canadian Studies Certificate. Co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies, she has published widely on the literary productions of Black women in the Americas and is the author of Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation (2022). Her current book project is an autofictional exploration of women’s journeys in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries across the Atlantic Ocean and Sargasso Sea.Leslie Sanders is University Professor Emerita in the Department of Humanities at York University. She is the author of The Development of Black Theater in America (1988), a general editor of the Collected Works of Langston Hughes: Gospel Plays, Operas, and Later Dramatic Works (2004), and editor for two volumes of plays. She has published on such Black Canadian writers as Austin Clarke, Dionne Brand, M. NourbeSe Philip, Claire Harris, George Elliot Clarke, Maxine Tynes, and Djanet Sears. She created African Canadian Online, the first available database of African Canadian artists and their work in literature, film, music, dance, theatre, and visual art.

• Introduction: Black Canadian Literature and the WorldAndrea A. DavisPART ONE: ESTABLISHING A CANON1. The Code That Limits: Black Canadian Anthologizing and AnthologiesSharon Morgan Beckford2. Black Small Press Literary Publishing in English CanadaStephen Cain3. Palimpsests of Nation & Diaspora: Black Writing in Canada and Canadian LiteraturesPaul Barrett4. Afropolitanism and the African Immigrant in the African-Canadian Literary CanonAmatoritsero EdePART TWO: BLACK LITERARY GEOGRAPHIES5. Black Maritime—Africadian—Literature: An IntroductionGeorge Elliott Clarke6. Black Canadian Literature in Francophone QuebecSusan Ireland and Patrice J. Proulx7. Jazz, Diaspora, and the History and Writing of Black Anglophone MontrealWinfried Siemerling8. Writing TorontoDarcy Ballantyne9. From Absence to Abundance: Recovering the Black Prairie Archive, 1872–2023Karina Vernon10. ‘It Is Arrogant to Disappear:’ A Humble Re-Visioning of Black Literature in British ColumbiaDavid ChariandyPART THREE: GENRE AND MODES OF WRITING11. Slave Narratives as a Transnational GenreNele Sawallisch12. Post-Slavery and the Making of the Black Canadian Novel, 1850s–1990Jennifer Harris13. African-Canadian Poetry in English: 1890–2000George Elliott Clarke14. Black Canadian Children’s Literature: Evolution, Writers, and ImpactJanet Seow15. Writing Black Canada: An Unfinished Project of Freedom Andrea A. DavisPART FOUR: PERFORMANCE AND VOICE16. Speak OurStory! 12 Poet-to-Poet Conversations on the Legacy, the Now, and Future ofBlack Canadian Dub Poetry and Spoken WordWendy Motion Brathwaite17. National and Diasporic Dialogues: Black Canadian Drama and TheatreJacqueline Petropolous18. Rising, Lifting, Resisting: A History of Black Dramatic Feature Filmmaking in CanadaAndrea MedovarskiPART FIVE: MAJOR WRITERS OF INFLUENCE19. Marie-Célie AgnantSusan Ireland and Patrice Proulx20. “The Abacus of her Eyelids”: Dionne Brand’s PoeticsChristina Sharpe21. Dionne Brand: Ambivalent NovelizationsEshe Mercer-James22. After Canadian Multiculturalism: David ChariandyRinaldo Walcott23. Austin Clarke’s “Out-a-Order” Poetics and the Archiving of Black LivesMichael A. Bucknor24. George Elliott Clarke: A Biocritical ExaminationJoseph J. Pivato25. Wayde Compton: From Archive to Innovation in the Black British Columbian LivedImaginaryHeather Smyth26. Esi Edugyan: Black Fugitivity and the Possibility of a Second LifePilar Cuder-Domínguez27. Lawrence Hill’s Critical Aesthetics of Cultural ResilienceAna María Fraile-Marcos 28. “Magic in the Real”: The Speculative Engagements of Nalo HopkinsonMaureen Moynagh29. Dany LaferrièreClaire Reising30. The Multiplicities of Émile Ollivier: Haitian Tragedies and Montreal CrossroadsAmanda Perry31. Disturbing the Peace, Caring for the Word: M. NourbeSe PhilipKate Siklosi32. Makeda Silvera: Prioritizing Marginalized VoicesEshe Mercer-James