Les écritures noires du Canada: L'Atlantique noir et la présence du passé(Études canadiennes)

The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore Black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the Black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including Austin Clarke, George Elliott Clarke, Dionne Brand, Wayde Compton, and Esi Edugyan. Arguing that Black writing in Canada is deeply imbricated in a historic transnational network, Winfried Siemerling explores the powerful presence of Black Canadian history, slavery, the Underground Railroad, and the Black diaspora in the work of contemporary Black Canadian writers. Individual chapters examine the literature that has emerged from Quebec, Nova Scotia, the Prairies, and British Columbia, with attention to writing in both English and French.

About the Author :
Winfried Siemerling (Author) Winfried Siemerling is University Research Chair and Professor of English at the University of Waterloo, Associate of the W. E. B. Du Bois Research Institute at Harvard University, author of The New North American Studies and co-editor of Canada and Its Americas: Transnational Navigations. Philippe Mongeau (Contributor) Philippe Mongeau is Metadata Librarian at the University of Delaware where he specializes in the cataloguing and metadata of rare books and special collections. He updated the timeline included in Les écritures noires du Canada.

Review :
"Siemerling ... [invokes] the spectres of past into the sounding mix of the present, providing rallying cries that allow us to imagine the kind of future we want for a multicultural Canada that can, and must, continue to be conceived within locally and globally imbricated spaces."-- ""The Presence of the Past" in Spec. issue of Canadian Literature / Littérature Canadienne, 224 (Spring 2015): 144-146." "The Black Atlantic Reconsidered offers a meticulously researched, contextualized, and engaging exploration of Black Canadian writing. A must-read for any person who desires a comprehensive meditation on Black Canadian writing past and present. Winfried Siemerling's thorough and thoughtful book helps to fill a mighty void, and will open the door to more conversations about one of Canada's most vital, yet understudied literary communities." "This powerfully rendered text brings us closer to a definitive understanding of the entire 'circum-Atlantic network' in its critical interrogation of the Canadian scene-its histories, cultures, and literatures; routed through the times and spaces of Canada, we come upon the Black Atlantic once again as a reconfigured repertoire of actual and archival resources that elaborate upon and expand our identitarian signatures. Mining the deep structures of Canadian historiographies, Siemerling lovingly and masterfully provides a prehensile reading of the virtually inexhaustible richness of African Canadian literary (and musical) culture--its past as well as its quite stunning contemporaneity." "Winfried Siemerling's The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the book that students of the black literary experience in the New World have been waiting for, without fully appreciating it was missing, for generations. Not only does it open our eyes to the monumental importance of black Canadian writing, from enslavement in New France to North Star escapes to the explosion in diasporic expressions from the 1960s to today; it forces us to expand our understanding of the boundaries of the African journey in the New World upward, to where they belong and always have been. Siemerling's scholarship on Canada's place in the wider black Atlantic should be read and taught for many years to come." Un panorama exhaustif de l'histoire littéraire et culturelle canadienne-africaine de la période coloniale à nos jours, en replaçant cette histoire dans une dynamique transatlantique et transnationale qui permet notamment d'éclairer la contribution des Canadiens africains, anglophones comme francophones, à l'espace diasporique de "l'Atlantique noir" et à la définition de la modernité. C'est un ouvrage d'une grande érudition, tant par son ampleur historique que par la variété des genres, oeuvres et artistes abordés dans les aires culturelles anglophones et francophones. La bibliographie en fin d'ouvrage, qui compte 37 pages, constitue à elle seule un outil fondamental pour les chercheurs travaillant sur ces thématiques. https: //trahir.wordpress.com/2022/09/24/traduire-latlantique-noir/ --Patricia Godbout "Patricia Godbout" Winner of the Association for Canadian and Québec Literatures 2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English section), for best book of Canadian literary criticism written in English "Winfried Siemerling's The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past is a ground-breaking and consequential volume. It examines Black Canadian writing in both English and French from the early eighteenth century to the present, contextualizing it vis-à-vis the nation-state and the transnational black Atlantic. Poised to galvanize scholarly and classroom conversations on this understudied corpus, Siemerling's book, which analyzes Black Canadian literary representations of history, is history-making in its own right."