This essay reviews published responses to Paul Gilroy's The Black Atlantic (1993). The
essay begins by summarizing Gilroy's main arguments and considering the significance of …

Focusing on the work of black, diasporic writers in Canada, particularly Dionne Brand,
Austin Clarke, and Tessa McWatt, Blackening Canada investigates the manner in which …

Paul Gilroy has been a controversial force at the forefront of debates around race, nation,
and diaspora. Working across a broad range of disciplines, Gilroy has argued that racial …

This is the first book to place the self-fashioning of mixed-race individuals in the context of a
Black Atlantic. Drawing on a wide range of sources and a diverse cast of characters–from …

This book engages immigrant literature to explore Arab-Canadian youth's cross-cultural
conceptualization of identity and therefore contributes to the scholarship of the curriculum-as …

This dissertation contributes to the fields of Canadian literature and black cultural studies in
Canada a new regional archive of literature, the black prairie archive. It unearths and brings …

Both Anil's Ghost and The Hero's Walk advance conceptual cross-fertilizations between
Canadian literature and diaspora studies and intervene into current discourses of diaspora …

The painting on the cover of this volume of the Journal of West Indian Literature presents in
visual form the central themes of this special issue on Rooting and Routing Caribbean …

There is a commonly held view in Quebec studies today that postcolonial theory and
postcolonial criticism are underused and underrepresented. Is this a bad thing? The …

Though many discussions of diaspora emphasize metaphors of mobility, Brand's Map to the
Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging uses moments of fixity and excess to think through …