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Beyond National Time: Black Atlantic Temporalities and the Time-Space of Black Canadian Cultural Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 December 2020

Karina Vernon
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Abstract

This paper works with methodologies offered by Winfried Siemerling’s The Black Atlantic Reconsidered (2015) to elaborate the complexities involved in conversations between the fields of Canadian Literature and Black Canadian cultural studies. As Siemerling argues, Black Canadian literature is marked by the transversal time-spaces of the Black Atlantic which run counter to linear national time. What are the implications, then, of the Black Atlantic’s incommensurable time-spaces in the ongoing project of institutionalizing Black Canadian literature?

Keywords

Canadian literatureBlack Canadian literaturedisciplinaritynational timeBlack Atlantic temporalities
Type
Book Forum: Winfried Siemerling’s The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
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Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 2021 , pp. 94 - 97
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© The Author(s), 2020. Published by Cambridge University Press

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3 Siemerling, Winfried, The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2015)Google Scholar.