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Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature
George Elliott Clarke identifies African-Canadian literature's distinguishing characteristics, argues for its relevance to both African Diasporic Black and Canadian Studies, and critiques several of its key creators and texts. Clarke has unearthed vital but previously unconsidered authors, and charted the relationship between African-Canadian literature and that of Africa, African America, and the Caribbean. In addition to the essays, Clarke has assembled a seminal and expansive bibliography of texts - literature and criticism - from both English and French Canada.
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)
- Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections (2018)
- These Are the Words (2018)
- The Motorcyclist (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVII) (2017)
- The Merchant of Venice (Retried) (2017)
- Canticles I: (MMXVI) (2016)
- Gold (2016)
- Extra Illicit Sonnets (2015)
- Traverse (2014)
- Lasso the Wind: Aurelia's Verses and other Poems (2013)
- Illicit Sonnets (2013)
- Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2011)
- Red (2011)
- I & I (2009)
- Blues and Bliss: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke (2008)
- Trudeau: Long March & Shining Path (2007)
- Black (2006)
- Illuminated Verses (2005)
- George and Rue (2005)
- Quebecite (2003)
- Blue II (2001)
- Blue (2001)
- Execution Poems : The Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue (2001)
- Whylah Falls: A Play (1999)
- Beatrice Chancy (1999)
- Gold Indigoes (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)