The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature
The Routledge Companion to Anglophone Caribbean Literature offers a comprehensive, critically engaging overview of this increasingly significant body of work.
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Michael Bucknor
"Austin Clarke's 'Saga Boys': Black Aesthetics as Epistemology?" in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 42, 76-95
Austin Clarke in Nine Men Who Laughed and Ebony Patterson in her Gangstas for Life series both inspire an investigation of the way in which the “Black dandy” is an index of Black aesthetics as epistemology. Via a dialogue between Clarke’s Black male dandies of the post 1960s Toronto in his short stories and Patterson’s […]
"Austin Clarke, Affective Affiliations, and the Cross-Border Poetics of Caribbean Canadian Writing" in Beyond "Understanding Canada:" in Transnational Perspective on Canadian Literature
The dismantling of “Understanding Canada”—an international program eliminated by Canada’s Conservative government in 2012—posed a tremendous potential setback for Canadianists. Yet Canadian writers continue to be celebrated globally by popular and academic audiences alike. Twenty scholars speak to the government’s diplomatic and economic about-face and its implications for representations of Canadian writing within and outside […]