What's a Black Critic To Do? : Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black Writers.

By: Bailey Nurse, DonnaMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: London : Insomniac Press, 2003Copyright date: ©2003Description: 1 online resource (209 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781897414538Subject(s): African Americans -- Intellectual life | African Americans in literature | American literature -- African American authors -- History and criticism | Blacks -- Canada -- Intellectual life | Blacks in literature | Canadian literature -- Black authors -- History and criticism | Race in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: What's a Black Critic To Do? : Interviews, Profiles and Reviews of Black WritersDDC classification: 810.9/896072 LOC classification: PR9188.2.B57 -- B35 2003ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- By Way of Introduction -- Profiles -- After the Giller -- Roots Canadian Style -- Two Solitudes -- Figure in a Landscape -- An Optimistic Planet -- In the Garden -- Black Man's Burden -- The Homecoming -- I Remember Papa -- The Music Man -- The Life of Portia White -- Lady Sings the Blues -- Poetic Justice -- Phantom Hearts -- Digging Up a Hidden Past -- The Importance of Being Different -- Just Your Average Black Canadian Guy (Whatever That Is) -- The We of Blackness -- A Quality of Light -- Consecrated Ground -- Race, Film and History -- Interviews -- Toni Morrison: War and Peace -- Cecil Foster: A Long Sojourn -- Lawrence Hill: In Black and White -- David Odhiambo: African Perspectives -- Austin Clarke: The Polished Hoe -- Nalo Hopkinson: Fantasy Island Girl -- Andre Alexis, Nalo Hopkinson and Djanet Sears: Black Writers on Being Edited, Published and Reviewed in Canada -- Reviews -- The Worlds Within Her -- Doing the Heart Good -- In Another Place Not Here -- At The Full and Change of the Moon -- Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African Canadian Literature -- The Bondwoman's Narrative -- Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats -- Bud, Not Buddy -- Slammin' Tar -- Any Known Blood -- Brown Girl in the Ring -- Rush Home Road -- The Book of lfs and Buts -- Putting Down Roots: Montreal's Immigrant Writers -- Kipligat's Chance -- Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture -- No Crystal Stair -- In Silence the Strands Unravel -- Deemed Unsuitable -- The Heart Does Not Bend -- Behind the Face of Winter -- The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart -- Coda -- Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit.
Summary: This groundbreaking collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known black writers and artists as Nalo Hopkinson, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Lawrence Hill and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in contemporary Black Canadian and American literature. What's a Black Critic to Do? is for anyone looking for a way to talk about the sometimes-taboo topic of race, as it appears in novels, movies and plays. Of interest to Black readers as well as teachers, librarians and book club members, this book is a vital snapshot of contemporary North American culture.
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Intro -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- By Way of Introduction -- Profiles -- After the Giller -- Roots Canadian Style -- Two Solitudes -- Figure in a Landscape -- An Optimistic Planet -- In the Garden -- Black Man's Burden -- The Homecoming -- I Remember Papa -- The Music Man -- The Life of Portia White -- Lady Sings the Blues -- Poetic Justice -- Phantom Hearts -- Digging Up a Hidden Past -- The Importance of Being Different -- Just Your Average Black Canadian Guy (Whatever That Is) -- The We of Blackness -- A Quality of Light -- Consecrated Ground -- Race, Film and History -- Interviews -- Toni Morrison: War and Peace -- Cecil Foster: A Long Sojourn -- Lawrence Hill: In Black and White -- David Odhiambo: African Perspectives -- Austin Clarke: The Polished Hoe -- Nalo Hopkinson: Fantasy Island Girl -- Andre Alexis, Nalo Hopkinson and Djanet Sears: Black Writers on Being Edited, Published and Reviewed in Canada -- Reviews -- The Worlds Within Her -- Doing the Heart Good -- In Another Place Not Here -- At The Full and Change of the Moon -- Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African Canadian Literature -- The Bondwoman's Narrative -- Crowns: Portraits of Black Women in Church Hats -- Bud, Not Buddy -- Slammin' Tar -- Any Known Blood -- Brown Girl in the Ring -- Rush Home Road -- The Book of lfs and Buts -- Putting Down Roots: Montreal's Immigrant Writers -- Kipligat's Chance -- Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism and Culture -- No Crystal Stair -- In Silence the Strands Unravel -- Deemed Unsuitable -- The Heart Does Not Bend -- Behind the Face of Winter -- The Way Forward Is With a Broken Heart -- Coda -- Pig Tails 'n Breadfruit.

This groundbreaking collection of profiles, interviews, essays and reviews on such well-known black writers and artists as Nalo Hopkinson, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Lawrence Hill and Edwidge Danticat constitutes a frank conversation on the significance of race in contemporary Black Canadian and American literature. What's a Black Critic to Do? is for anyone looking for a way to talk about the sometimes-taboo topic of race, as it appears in novels, movies and plays. Of interest to Black readers as well as teachers, librarians and book club members, this book is a vital snapshot of contemporary North American culture.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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