Figures xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction 3
WINFRIED SIEMERLING AND KARINA VERNON
Part One | Artists on Audience
1 All That Grooving 45
LILLIAN ALLEN
2 Writing Is a Social Act 48
WAYDE COMPTON
3 Receiver? 51
KAIE KELLOUGH
4 Wolves and Jellyfish: Inside Flipping Outside Flipping Inside 56
SUZETTE MAYR
5 Notes on Audience 60
SYLVIA D. HAMILTON
6 World Making, Truth Telling, and the Work of a Poet 65
JULIANE OKOT BITEK
Part Two | Writing and Theatre
7 Who’s Listening? Artists, Audiences & Language 71
M. NOURBESE PHILIP
8 M. NourbeSe Philip’s Antiphonal Poetics 88
KYLE KINASCHUK
9 Teachable Moments: Invitations to Thinking and Community in Cheryl Foggo’s Pourin’ Down Rain and David Chariandy’s Brother 112
LAUREANNE WILLEMS
10 “Radically Reconfigured Spaces and Relations”: Reading “Radical Intimacy” in David Chariandy’s Brother 133
VALERIE UHER
11 “Volumes of Ambivalence”: An Exploration of Market Aesthetics and Canada’s Literary Mainstream in David Chariandy’s Brother 154
JP MONGEAU
12 The Tragedy of Black Citizenship? Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems and George & Rue 177
KATJA SARKOWSKY
13 Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women 197
NAILA KELETA-MAE
14 “Evidence we were here”: Reflections on Black Canadian Theatre and Audience 217
DJANET SEARS AND SIGNY LYNCH
Part Three | Visual and Sonic Art
15 The Street Poetics of #BlackLivesMatter-Toronto 231
TAVLEEN PUREWAL
16 Contrast and Share: Reading Black Lives in Black Photojournalism in 1970s “Multicultural” Toronto 254
CHERYL THOMPSON
17 Imaging Otherwise: Ella Cooper’s Photo-Video Art 278
HANNAH GARDINER
18 From Site/Sight to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia D. Hamilton’s The Little Black School House 290
WINFRIED SIEMERLING
19 Turntable Poetry, Mixed-Race, and Schizophonophilia 306
WAYDE COMPTON
20 Rhythms Riddims of Relation 319
MARK V. CAMPBELL
Part Four | Teaching Black Canadian Works of Art
21 Reading and Listening to Black Canadian Literature: My Route 337
LESLIE SANDERS
22 Introduction to the Syllabus: Black Literatures and Cultures in Canada 348
DARCY BALLANTYNE
23 “This Part of the Country”: Teaching Archives of Black Prairie Freedom and Futures 360
CORNEL BOGLE, COURTENAY CHAN, MIRIAM MABROUK, JUMOKE VERISSIMO, AND TERESA ZACKODNIK
24 Reading and Listening Intently to David Chariandy’s Brother on the Prairie Campus 375
JOANNE LEOW
25 Canadian Literature Through and Beyond the Black Atlantic 390
JENNIFER BLAIR
26 Hemispheric Approaches to Black Canadian Literatures 408
MAANDEEQ MOHAMED
27 The Outside of the Inside: Blackness and the Remaking of Canadian Institutional Life 414
KARINA VERNON
28 Teaching (Black) Canadian Literature in the Netherlands 424
HANS BAK, JOCHEM RIESTHUIS, AND JEANETTE DEN TOONDER
Coda 433
KARINA VERNON AND WINFRIED SIEMERLING
References 441
Contributors 471
Index 479