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

‘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)

• 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