Description: Whiteout by George Elliott Clarke In Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. Clarkes range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, "Africadian" community whose last home was razed in 1970. For Clarke, Canadas relentless celebration of itself as a site of "multicultural humanitarianism" has blinded White leaders and citizens to the countrys many crimes, at home and abroad, thus blacking out the historical record. These essays yield an alternate history of Canada, a corrective revision that Clarke describes as "inking words on snow, evanescent and ephemeral." FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Poet, novelist, playwright, librettist, screenwriter, and critic George Elliott Clarke was born in Windsor, Nova Scotia, and grew up in Halifax. His acclaimed verse-novelWhylah Falls(1990), adapted for radio and stage, has been published in Chinese, while Execution Poems (2001) won the Governor Generals Literary Award for poetry. The foremost scholar of African-Canadian literature, Clarke authored the foundational volumes, Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature(2002) and Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2012). Long Description In Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness , his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. Clarkes range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, "Africadian" community whose last home was razed in 1970. For Clarke, Canadas relentless celebration of itself as a site of "multicultural humanitarianism" has blinded White leaders and citizens to the countrys many crimes, at home and abroad, thus blacking out the historical record. These essays yield an alternate history of Canada, a corrective revision that Clarke describes as "inking words on snow, evanescent and ephemeral." Description for Sales People This is a major Black Canadian figure writing on previously unrecognized contributions that Black people have made to Canadian history. Details ISBN1550656074 Author George Elliott Clarke Publisher Vehicule Press Format Paperback Pages 300 Year 2023 ISBN-13 9781550656077 Imprint Vehicule Press Place of Publication Montreal, QC Country of Publication Canada Subtitle How Canada Cancels Blackness ISBN-10 1550656074 UK Release Date 2023-03-21 Publication Date 2023-09-01 DEWEY 305.896071 Audience General AU Release Date 2023-12-10 Illustrations Illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:144729024;
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