Book 2015

Black Atlantic Reconsidered

Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Language: English
Published: 2015

Blacks in literature
History in literature
Canadian literature
Black Canadian authors
History and criticism
Black authors
Culture in literature
Transnationalism in literature

The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroe" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers ...-- Provided by publishers