George Elliott Clarke

George Elliott Clarke recited (2015).

George Elliott Clarke , ONS , OC (born February 12, 1960 in Windsor Plains , Nova Scotia ) is a Canadian poet and EJ Pratt Professor of Literature at the University of Toronto .

Clarke's two-volume anthology Fire on the Water (Lawrencetown Beach: Pottersfield Press, 1991) brought together for the first time texts from the African-born diaspora in Canada's east coast provinces, where as a result of slavery and slave trade before 1800 and the flight of African-Americans after the War of Independence and the War of 1812 a separate population group with African ancestors lives. In a mixture of "african" and the older French mi'kmaq word for the area, Acadie , Clarke called them "Africadians".

Clarke's poetic works are characterized by the transgression of genre boundaries and a mixture of classical forms with oral tradition, jazz and blues rhythms; his best-known work so far is Whylah Falls (1991, 2001, also produced as a radio play and drama). In 2001, Clarke received the prestigious Governor General's Award. Apart from Clarke, the outstanding representative of Africadian literature is Maxine Tynes ( 1949- ).

bibliography

• Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues (1983), collection of poems
• Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems (1995), book of poems
• Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African Canadian Literature (1997), representative anthology of 21 works in black lit.
• Gold Indigoes (1999), book of poems
• Beatrice Chancy (1999), non-fiction book
• Blue (2001), book of poems
• Execution Poems: Black Acadian Tragedy of George and Rue (2001), poetry collection
• Odyssey's Home: Mapping African Canadian Literature (2002), non-fiction book
• Illuminated Verses (2005), book of poems
• George and Rue (2005), novel
• Black (2006), book of poems
• I and I (2007), book of poems
• Trudeau: Long March and Shining Path (2007), play
• Blues and Bliss (2008), poetry book together with John Paul Fiorentino
• Directions Home: Approaches to African Canadian Literature (2011), non-fiction book

literature

• Ana Maria Fraile: Exposing Blackness as Canadian (Literary) Identity. George Elliott Clarke's "George and Rue", in Canada exposed: [papers presented at the International Council for Canadian Studies Biennial Conference "Canada Exposed" held May 27 to 29, 2008 in collaboration with the Institute of Canadian Studies of the University of Ottawa , and the School of Canadian Studies of Carleton University ]. Le Canada à découvert. Edited by Pierre Anctil. Peter Lang, Bern 2009, pp. 177–194
• Joseph Pivato Ed .: Africadian Atlantic: Essays on George Elliott Clarke. Guernica, Toronto 2012 (14 scientific essays on his work)
• Nora Tunkel: Tracing the Lyrics of the Unvoiced: GE Clarke, in dies .: Transcultural imaginaries. History and globalization in contemporary Canadian literature. Winter, Heidelberg 2012, pp. 169 - 178 = Diss.phil. University of Vienna 2009
• Katrin Berndt: Citizens and the Community. Dimensions of Democratic Justice in Contemporary Black Canadian Writing. Journal of Canada Studies , 37, 2017, pp. 21-39 (via Clarke and Dionne Brand ) full text
• Gregor Benedikt Pudzich: Rewriting the past, pluralizing the present. Renegotiating Canadianness in the works of Dionne Brand, George Elliott Clarke and Lawrence Hill . Diss. Phil. University of Duisburg-Essen 2018, publ. 2019 urn : nbn: de: 464: 2-0190215-061555-5 ; doi : 10.17185 / duepublico / 70003

Web links

• Clarke at English-Canadian writers, Athabasca University , with numerous further links