Identities on the Move: Of Cultural Fissures and Fusions in Black Canadian Literature

Abstract

Discusses black Canadian literature, including works by Marlene Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, Makeda Silvera, Émile Ollivier, and Dany Laferrière, with regard to "the New World African diaspora space" and the formation of identity in a multicultural society, "an existence between geographical, cultural, and psychological borders".