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Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections
In this unique literary collection, George Elliott Clarke—the pioneering scholar of African-Canadian literature—anthologizes the field’s first collections of poetry and the first novel. Clarke’s powerful introduction illuminates the historical, cultural, and political significance of these groundbreaking works for contemporary readers of Black Canadian authors.
George Elliott Clarke is a poet, playwright and scholar born in Windsor, Nova Scotia.
Other publications from this author include:
- Portia White: A Portrait in Words (2019)
- These Are the Words (2018)
- The Merchant of Venice (Retried) (2017)
- The Motorcyclist (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVII) (2017)
- Gold (2016)
- Canticles I: (MMXVI) (2016)
- Extra Illicit Sonnets (2015)
- Traverse (2014)
- Illicit Sonnets (2013)
- Lasso the Wind: Aurelia's Verses and other Poems (2013)
- Red (2011)
- Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2011)
- I & I (2009)
- Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke (2008)
- Trudeau: Long March & Shining Path (2007)
- Black (2006)
- George and Rue (2005)
- Illuminated Verses (2005)
- Quebecite (2003)
- Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002)
- Execution Poems : The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue (2001)
- Blue (2001)
- Blue II (2001)
- Gold Indigoes (1999)
- Whylah Falls: A Play (1999)
- Beatrice Chancy (1999)
- Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature (1997)
- Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems : 1978-1993 (1994)
- Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing, Volume Two (1992)
- Whylah Falls (1990)