“The Quiltings of Human Flesh”—Constructions of Racial Hybridity in Contemporary African-Canadian LiteraturePosted in Canada, Dissertations, Literary/Artistic Criticism, Media Archive on 2013-12-26 19:30Z by Steven |
University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany
2010-05-02
366 pages
Heike Bast
Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Greifswald
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- ‘RACE’ MATTERS’: A PERSONAL NOTE ON BELONGING
- 1. INTRODUCTION: ‘SOLE OR WHOLE’ – QUILTING THE RACIALIZED SUBJECT
- 2. SIGNIFYING THE IN-BETWEEN: ‘RACE’, ‘RACIAL HYBRIDITY’ AND QUESTIONS OF BELONGING
- 2.1. The Language of ‘Race’ – Notes on Terminology
- 2.2. Identities in Flux: Discourses on ‘Race’ and Subjectivity
- 2.2.1 ‘Race Theory’ – a Brief Historical Review
- 2.2.2. “Identities Without Guarantees” and the Critique of Sameness: Contemporary Race Theory
- 2.3. Uncertain Crossings: Racial Hybridity and Post-Colonial Belonging
- 3. APPROACHING AFRICAN-CANADIAN BORDERLANDS
- 3.1. The African-Canadian Experience: Unearthing the History of Miscegenation in Canada
- 3.2. Canadian Multiculturalism and Cultural Violence: Mixed-Race Identities and the Intricacies of Belonging
- 3.3. Living and Writing the In-Between: Tracing a Black Literary Tradition in Canada
- 3.4. From ‘Tragic Mulatto’ to ‘Zebra Poetics’? – Racial Hybridity in African-Canadian literature
- 4. EXPLORING AFRICAN-CANADIAN BORDERLANDS
- 4.1. Borderlands Poetics in the Writings of Suzette Mayr
- 4.1.1. Suzette Mayr’s Zebra Talk (1991)
- 4.1.2. Metamorphoses and the Racialized Body: Suzette Mayr’s Moon Honey (1995)
- 4.1.3. Canadian Hodgepodge in Suzette Mayr’s The Widows (1998)
- 4.2. ‘Reverse Doublestuff’, or from Halfness to Wholeness: The Poetry of Mercedes Baines
- 4.3. Polyvalent Blackness in African-Canadian Drama: Difference and Healing in Maxine Bailey’s and Sharon Lewis’s Sistahs (1994)
- 4.4. ‘An Exile in the Land of My Birth’: Racial Mixture and National Belonging in the Autobiographical Writings of Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar
- 4.5. Anti-Mulatto Rhetoric in Haitian and Haitian-Canadian History, Literature, and Culture
- 4.5.1. Unmasking the Carnival: Max Dorsinville’s Erzulie Loves Shango (1998)
- 4.5.2. Torment, Memory and Desire: Gérard Étienne’s La Pacotille (1991)
- 4.6. ‘In Pursuit of Wholeness’: ‘Race’, Class and Black Masculinity in Kim Barry Brunhuber’s Kameleon Man (2003)
- 4.1. Borderlands Poetics in the Writings of Suzette Mayr
- 5. ‘FROM SOLE TO WHOLE’ – AFRICAN-CANADIAN MIXED-RACE POETICS
- 6. BIBLIOGRAPHY
- APPENDIX I: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON AUTHORS
- APPENDIX II: INTERVIEW WITH SUZETTE MAYR (JULY 25TH, 2009)
- Danksagung
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