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Blackening Canada - Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism (Paperback)
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Blackening Canada - Diaspora, Race, Multiculturalism (Paperback)
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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 literature can
transform conceptions of nation and diaspora. Through a
consideration of literary representation, public discourse, and the
language of political protest, Paul Barrett argues that Canadian
multiculturalism uniquely enables black diasporic writers to
transform national literature and identity. These writers seize
upon the ambiguities and tensions within Canadian discourses of
nation to rewrite the nation from a black, diasporic perspective,
converting exclusion from the national discourse into the impetus
for their creative endeavours. Within this context, Barrett
suggests, debates over who counts as Canadian, the limits of
tolerance, and the breaking points of Canadian multiculturalism
serve not as signs of multiculturalism's failure but as proof of
both its vitality and of the unique challenges that black writing
in Canada poses to multicultural politics and the nation itself.
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