Black Prairie Archives

An Anthology

Häftad, Engelska, 2020

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The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology recovers a new regional archive of ""black prairie"" literature, and includes writing that ranges from work by nineteenth-century black fur traders and pioneers, all of it published here for the first time, to contemporary writing of the twenty-first century. This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as ""prairie"" people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid glimpses into the reality of their lived experiences and give meaning to them. The book includes introductory notes for each writer in non-specialist language, and notes to assist readers in their engagement with the literature. This archive and its supporting text offer new scholarly and pedagogical possibilities by expanding the nation's and the region's archives. They enrich our understanding of black Canada by bringing to light the prairies' black histories, cultures, and presences.

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Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-28
Mått:152 x 215 x 38 mm
Vikt:900 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:580
Förlag:Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN:9781771123747

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Karina Vernon is an associate professor of English at the University of Toronto, where her teaching and research focus on black Canadian literature, archives, and decolonization.

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IntroductionDaniel T. Williams [date unknown -1880]""Notebook 1872-1875."" Letter to Hudson's Bay Company Factor, George Kennedy, April 12, 1873Dr. Alfred Schmitz Shadd [1870-1915]""To the Electorate of the District of Kinistino,"" 1905 Letters to The Melfort MoonMildred Lewis Ware [1871-1905]Three LettersWilliam Sylvester Alpheus Beal [1874-1968]from Memoir of the Swan River Valley, Manitoba3 Glass-plate photographsAlice Ethel Lewis [1886-1960]""In Loving Memory of Alberta""Jefferson Davis Edwards [1888-1979]""There Was a Cloud Over Amber Valley,"" from The Window of Our MemoriesJohn Bell Bowden [1888-1982]""Always Be a Factor in the Community!""Sylvester Long [1890-1932]""My Trail Upward,"" from Long Lance: The Autobiography of a Blackfoot Indian Chief ""Canoe Song""""Death Song of Long Lance""Rosa Shannon [c.1880-1931]""We Gave Our Lives to This Part of the Country,"" from The Window of Our MemoriesMartha Edwards [1890-1977]""That Is What Pioneers Had to Go Through,"" from The Window of Our MemoriesAmanda Janet (Nettie) Ware [1893-1989]""John Ware""E. A. Cobbs [dates unknown]""This Bias Was Good, for It Caused the Black People to Fight""Ellis Hooks [1907-1979]""The Way I Felt, I Wanted to Plead Guilty: I Wanted the World to Know,"" from the Provincial Archives of Alberta Oral History ProjectLuther Gerard [1914-2004]""Community Spirit""Lloyd Mayes [1916-1972?]""Homebrew,"" from North of the GullyGoldie Gordon [dates unknown]""Even the Bad Was Good,"" from North of the GullyGwen Hooks [1918-]from The Keystone Legacy: Recollections of a Black SettlerWilla R. Dallard [1898-1988]""Memories of My Father: The Late Willis Bowen of Amber Valley""Woody Strode [1914-1994]""Mixed Breed""""A Hero in Dogtown""Clinton Murphy [1926-2004]""Ode to the Amber Valley Baseball Team""Fil Fraser [1932-]from Alberta's Camelot: Culture & the Arts in the Lougheed YearsClaire Harris [1937-]""Backstage at the Glenbow Museum, Calgary,"" from SheAddena Sumter-Freitag [1944-]from Stay Black & DieLinus Tongwo Asong [1947-2012]from No Way to DieArchie Crail [1948-]""An Election""Nigel Darbasie [1950-]""Our Subdivision""Pan Man""""New Terra""Tololwa M. Mollel [1952-]""Feasting on Words""The Orphan BoyF. B. André [1955-]""Is There Someone You Can Call?""Cheryl Foggo [1956-]""The Kind of Black People That We Are,"" from Pourin' Down Rainfrom John Ware ReimaginedMargaret Robinson-Gudmundson [1957-]""The Severance""George Bwanika Seremba [1958-]from Come Good RainSuzette Mayr [1967-]""His Own Ending,"" from Monoceros""I Am the Architect of My Life,"" from Dr. Edith Vane and the Hares of Crawley HallMinister Faust [1969-]from The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Padfrom The Alchemists of KushTroy Burle Bailey [c.1960s-]from The Pierre Bonga LoopsSheila Addiscott [1965-]""Coloured""Dawn Carter [1968-]""Restoration""A Monumental Love""""Get into My Car""Bertrand Bickersteth [1969-]""I Look at My Hand""""What We Used to Call It""""We, Too""Deanna Bowen [1969-]""sum of the parts: what can be named""Valerie Mason-John [1969-]from Borrowed BodyWakefield Brewster [1973-]""Human""""In Short""Ian Samuels [1975-]from The Ubiquitous BigVarious writersfrom Black Pioneer Centennial: A Little Taste of Soul (2005)Kaie Kellough [1975-]""boy hood dub II""""night gallery""from Creole Continuumfrom AccordéonEsi Edugyan [1977-]""Encountering Aster,"" from The Second Life of Samuel Tynefrom Half Blood BluesNehal El Hadi [1978-]""La Puerta""Nestor Wynrush (Elliott Walsh) [1978-]""Winnipeg South Blues""""Ole Mine Town""Kevan Anthony Cameron (""Scruffmouth"") [1979-]""I Am a Claim""Lisa Codrington [1982-]""The Red Woman""Michelle Jean-Paul [1985-]""Learning to Love Me""Ahmed Ali (""Knowmadic"") [1984-]""Child Soldier""Titilope Sonuga [1985-]from Down to EarthMarika Schwandt [1985?-]""Mulatto Nation""Cadence Weapon (Rollie Pemberton) [1986-]""Oliver Square""""House Music""""How Black?""Khodi Dill [1987-]""Atikameksheng ""Grey""""Ghost of Billie Holiday""Young Kidd (Frankie Fontaine) [1988-]""Wonderful Winnipeg""""Hometown""Hot Dogg (Mijok Lang [birth date unknown]""Letter to God""Miranda Martini [1990-]""The Drinking Gourd: Three Tales""