The Past is Present
The African-Canadian Experience in Lawrence Hill’s Fiction
©2013
Thesis
326 Pages
Series:
Canadiana, Volume 11
Summary
The Black tile in Canada’s mosaic has long been neglected – in historiography, literary criticism and public discourse. African-Canadian literature sets out to correct this absence. This study provides an in-depth look into the fiction of one of African-Canadian literature’s foremost writers, Lawrence Hill. His novels provide a counter-memory, an antidote to the forgetfulness and neglect which often characterize Canada’s attitude towards its Black minority both past and present. Dominant collective memory versions are thus corrected to reflect a more faithful Canadian mosaic. Whether it is the enslavement of Blacks in Canada, de facto segregation or racial profiling – Hill narrates histories which have rarely been told before. This book is the first to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hill’s historical fictions.
Details
- Pages
- 326
- Publication Year
- 2013
- ISBN (PDF)
- 9783653022605
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9783631625569
- DOI
- 10.3726/978-3-653-02260-5
- Language
- English
- Publication date
- 2012 (October)
- Keywords
- Afro-kanadische Literatur Black Canadian Literature Kollektives Gedächtnis Lawrence Hill
- Published
- Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2012. 326 pp., 4 tables, 2 graphs
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