TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christian Krampe
PY  - 2012
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653022605
TI  - The Past is Present
T2  - The African-Canadian Experience in Lawrence Hill’s Fiction
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-02260-5
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1046211
N2  - 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.
KW  - Afro-kanadische Literatur, Black Canadian Literature, Kollektives Gedächtnis, Lawrence Hill
LA  - English
ER  -