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Article: George Elliot Clarke. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature.(Book Review)
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George Elliot Clarke. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. University of Toronto Press, 200Y xii, 492, Cloth $85, paper $35.
Is African-Canadian literature one of Canada's newest or is it one of Canada's oldest literatures? George Elliot Clarke would reply that the answer depends on how we define literature. If literature is the body of texts and oral production of a culture, then African-Canadian literature--comprising the texts of Black Loyalists, of the Black arrivals in 1812, of the fugitive slave communities in Southern Ontario and elsewhere, and of the 19th-century arrivals in British Columbia--is among Canada's oldest literatures. If, ...