Governor General's Award-winning author George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues its relevance to both African Diasporic and Canadian Studies and critiques several of its key creators and texts.

George Elliott Clarke is Associate Professor of English at the University of Toronto.

Acknowledgments
A Note on the Text
Embarkation: Discovering African-Canadian Literature	p. 3
Sorties	p. 25
Contesting a Model Blackness: A Meditation on African-Canadian African Americanism, or the Structures of African-Canadianite	p. 27
Must All Blackness Be American? Locating Canada in Borden's 'Tightrope Time,' or Nationalizing Gilroy's The Black Atlantic	p. 71
The Career of Black English in Nova Scotia: A Literary Sketch	p. 86
The Birth and Rebirth of Africadian Literature	p. 107
Syl Cheney-Coker's Nova Scotia, or the Limits of Pan-Africanism	p. 126
Toward a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry	p. 151
Liberalism and Its Discontents: Reading Black and White in Contemporary Quebecois Texts	p. 163
Treason of the Black Intellectuals?	p. 182
Canadian Biraciality and Its 'Zebra' Poetics	p. 211
Clarke versus Clarke: Tory Elitism in Austin Clarke's Short Fiction	p. 238
Harris, Philip, Brand: Three Authors in Search of Literate Criticism	p. 253
No Language Is Neutral: Seizing English for Ourselves	p. 275
Incursions: Selected Reviews	p. 277
The Complex Face of Black Canada	p. 279
Viewing African Canada	p. 285
The Death and Rebirth of Africadian Nationalism	p. 288
An Unprejudiced View of Two Africadian Poets	p. 297
Reading Ward's 'Blind Man's Blues'	p. 305
African-Islanders	p. 308
Another Great Thing	p. 310
Growing Up Black in Alberta	p. 313
Toward a Black Women's Canadian History	p. 315
Love Which Is Insight	p. 319
The Outraged Citizen-Poet Speaks Out	p. 321
Surveys	p. 323
A Primer of African-Canadian Literature	p. 325
Africana Canadiana: A Select Bibliography of Literature by African-Canadian Authors, 1785-2001, in English, French, and Translation	p. 339
Works Cited	p. 449
Index	p. 477
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