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• Title:Blackening Canada : diaspora, race, multiculturalism / Paul Barrett.
  
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• Author/Creator:Barrett, Paul, 1979- author.
  
• Published/Created:Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2015]
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: PS8089.5.B5 B38 2015
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Canadian literature--Black authors--History and criticism.
  African diaspora in literature.
  Race in literature.
  Multiculturalism in literature.
  
• Description:viii, 240 pages ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which literature can transform conceptions of nation and diaspora.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781442647701 bound
  1442647701 bound
  9781442615762 pbk.
  1442615761 pbk.
  
• Contents:Introduction : texts and contexts of blackening
  Temporalities of becoming in Dionne Brand's thirsty
  "I'm running for my life" : mobility in Austin Clarke's recent fiction
  Writing life-worlds : Canadian history and the representation of Albert Johnson
  Race, heritage, and recognition in Tessa McWatt's Out of my skin
  Concluding
  Re-beginning : "blah, blah, blah" : emergent critical multiculturalism in Brampton, Ontario.