Refereed articles (1999-2025)
“On The Apparition of Beatrice Cenci in Mulholland Drive: Why David Lynch Ponders the Renaissance Patron Saint of Romanticism, (Post-) Modernism, & Feminism.” [Forthcoming from Fix Your Hearts or Die: Essays on David Lynch. Louisiana State University Press (LSU Press).]
What a (Non-) Difference a Half-Century Makes: Juxtaposing the African-Canadian Verse Anthologies of 1973 and 2022.” The Elgar Companion to the Arts and Global Multiculturalism. Eds. Sneja Gunew, Nikos Papastergiadis, et al. Surrey, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd, 2025. [Forthcoming.]
“Coloured ‘Extras’ & Spotlit Whites: Spectating ‘Race’ in Slings & Arrows.” [Forthcoming in vol., eds. Don Moore & Kailin Wright, University of Toronto Press.]
“Black Ice and Yellow Snow: On Digging into Canuck Pulp Fiction.” University of Toronto Quarterly. 94.1 (February 2025): 49-79.
“Black Maritime—Africadian—Literature: An Introduction.” The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature. Eds. Andrea A. Davis and Leslie Sanders. New York: Routledge, 2025. 97-114.
“African-Canadian Poetry in English, 1890-2000.” The Routledge Handbook of Black Canadian Literature. Eds. Andrea A. Davis and Leslie Sanders. New York: Routledge, 2025. 230-247.
“Is ‘Historiographic Ethnofiction’ Perpetually Tripped Up By Facts? Spy Invisible Blackness in Ondaatje’s Slaughter; Audit Muted History in Edugyan’s Half-Blood Blues.” Land Deep In Time: Canadian Historiographic Ethnofiction. Eds. Weronika Suchaka and Hartmut Lutz. Gottingen, Germany: Brill—Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht Unipress, 2023. 293-306.
“Assembling the Afro-Métis Syllabus: Some Preliminary Reading.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. 42 (2022): 10-41.
“Alice Munro’s Black Bottom; or Black Tints and Euro Hints in Lives of Girls and Women.” In Alice Munro Country: Essays on Her Works I. Ed. J.R. Tim Struthers. Oakville (ON): Guernica Editions, 2020. 207-235. Reprint.
“Ian Fleming’s Canadian Cities.” Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary.” Ed. Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos. New York: Routledge, 2014. 160-181. Rpt. Paperback. New York: Routledge, 2020.
“On Pamela Mordecai’s ‘Passion Plays’: A Plea for Their Performance.” Studies in Canadian Literature. 44.1. 2019. 5-29.
“The Constitution as Muse? Four Poets Respond (Tacitly) to the World-View of The British North America Act (1867).” Review of Constitutional Studies/Revue d’études constitutionnelles. 22.3 (2017) [2018]: 289-324.
“Why Not an ‘African-Canadian’ Epic? Lessons from Pratt and Walcott.” Comparative Literature for the New Century. Eds. Giulia de Gasperi and Joseph Pivato. Kingston (ON) & Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2018. 117-152.
“The Holocaust Witness as Absurdist: J.J. Steinfeld’s Ironic Ire.” J.J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works. Ed. Sandra Singer. Toronto: Guernica Editions, 2017. 221-239.
“Toward Establishing an—or the—“Archive” of African Canadian Literature.” Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada. Eds. Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016. 41-56.
“White Judges, Black Hoods: Hanging-as-Lynching in Three Canadian True-Crime Texts.” Canadian Law Library Review. 41.2 (2016): 10-19.
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“Jazzing Up Opera: A Defence of Québécité.” Opera in a Multicultural World: Coloniality, Culture, Performance. Eds. Mary I. Ingraham, Joseph K. So, and Roy Moodley. London: Routledge, 2015. 193-212.
“Alice Munro’s Black Bottom; or Black Tints and Euro Hints in Lives of Girls and Women.” In Alice Munro: Reminiscence, Interpretation, Adaptation, and Comparison. Eds. Buchholtz Mirosława and Eugenia Sojka. Frankfurt, Berlin: Peter Lang Verlag, 2015. 147-71.
“An Anatomy of the Originality of African-Canadian Thought.” THE CLR JAMES JOURNAL 20:1–2, Fall 2014 : 65-82.
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“Ian Fleming’s Canadian Cities.” Literature and the Glocal City: Reshaping the English Canadian Imaginary.” Ed. Ana Maria Fraile-Marcos. New York: Routledge, 2014. 160-181.
“On Selecting Irving Layton’s Seductive Invective; or, an Addendum to Trehearne.” English Studies in Canada. 38.2. June 2012 [2013]. 103-36.
“Bring Da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, chez d’bi young and Oni Joseph.” Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond! Eds. Susan Gingell and Wendy Roy. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2012. 53-76.
“For a Multicultural, Multi-Faith, Multiracial Canada: A Manifesto.” Unsettling Multiculturalism: Lands, Labours, Bodies. Eds. May Chazan, Lisa Helps, Anna Stanley, Sonali Thakkar. Toronto: Between the Lines. 2011. 51-57.
“Sounding John Thompson’s White Noise.” Studies in Canadian Literature. 36.2. 2011. 5-31.
“Halifax, Hiroshima, and the Romance of Disaster.” Shaping an Agenda for Atlantic Canada. Eds. John G. Reid & Donald J. Savoie. Halifax: Fernwood Press, 2011. 83-103.
“‘Symposia’ in the Drama of Trey Anthony and Louise Delisle.” Theatre Research in Canada. Ed. Ric Knowles. 3o.1-2 (2009): 1-16.
“Strategies for Legitimizing Difference: Mixed-Race Resistance in the Works of Andrea Thompson and Lorena Gale, Two African-Canadian Writers.” Canada: Images of a Post/National Society. Eds. Gunilla Florby, Mark Shackleton, and Katri Suhonen. Bruxelles: Peter Lang, 2009. 259-275.
“ ‘How White Are Your Whites?’ : A Response to Daniel Coleman’s White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada.” International Journal of Canadian Studies. 38 (2008): 208-220.
“Repatriating Arthur Nortje.” Canadian Cultural Exchange: Translation and Transculturation. Eds. Norman Cheadle and Lucien Pelletier. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University, 2007. 121-138.
“Anna Minerva Henderson: An Afro-New Brunswick Response to Canadian (Modernist) Poetry.” Canadian Literature. 189 (Summer 2006): 32-48.
“Does (Afro-) Caribbean-Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean?” Journal of West Indian Literature. 14.1-2 (November 2005 [June 2006]): 260-302.
“Towards a Pedagogy of African-Canadian Literature.” Moveable Margins: The Shifting Spaces of Canadian Literature. Ed. Chelva Kanaganayakam. Toronto: TSAR, 2005. 47-64.
"Must All Blackness Be American?: Locating Canada in Borden's 'Tightrope Time', or Nationalizing Gilroy's The Black Atlantic." Canadian Ethnic Studies. 28.3 (1996): 56-71. Reprinted in African-Canadian Theatre: Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Volume Two. Ed. Maureen Moynagh. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2005. 11-28.
“’This is no hearsay’: Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives.” Papers of the Bibliographical Society of Canada. 43.1 (Spring 2005): 7-32.
“Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African-Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angélique.” Essays on Canadian Writing. 75 (Winter 2002): 30-61. Reprinted in Racism, Eh? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology on Race in the Canadian Context. Eds. Camille A. Nelson and Charmaine A. Nelson. North York, ON: Captus Press, 2004. 65-84.
“Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African-Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angélique.” Essays on Canadian Writing. 75 (Winter 2002): 30-61.
“Canadian Biraciality and Its “Zebra” Poetics. Intertexts. 6.2 (Fall 2002): 203-231.
“Embracing Beatrice Chancy, or In Defence of Poetry.” The New Quarterly. XX.3 (Fall/Winter 2000-2001): 14-24.
“Harris, Phillip, Brand: Three Authors in Search of Literate Criticism.” Journal of Canadian Studies. 35.1 (Spring 2000): 161-189.
"Racing Shelley, or Reading The Cenci as a Gothic Slave Narrative." European Romantic Review. 11.2 (Spring 2000): 168-185.
"Reading Ward's 'Blind Man's Blues.'" Arc. 44 (Summer 2000): 50-52.
"Liberalism and Its Discontents: Reading Black and White in Contemporary Québécois Texts." (Reprint of article first published in the Journal of Canadian Studies, 31.3 [Autumn 1996]: 59-77.) In Literary Pluralities, ed. Christl Verdun. Toronto: Broadview Press, 1998. 193-210.
"Cool Politics: Styles of Honour in Malcolm X and Miles Davis." Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies. 1.2 (1998): http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert
"Contesting a Model Blackness: A Meditation on African-Canadian African Americanism, or The Structures of African-Canadianité." Essays on Canadian Writing. 63 (Spring 1998): 1-55.
"Towards a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry." [Reprint of article first published in the Revue Frontenac / Frontenac Review, 9 (1992): 45-63.] In Cultural Identities in Canadian Literature /Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne, ed. Bénédicte Mauguière. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 49-63.
"Must We Burn Haliburton?" In The Haliburton Bi-centenary Chaplet: Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas Raddall Symposium. Ed. Richard A. Davies. Wolfville NS: Gaspereau Press, 1997. 1-40.
"Africana Canadiana: A Primary Bibliography of Literature by African-Canadian Authors, 1785-1996, in English, French, and Translation." Canadian Ethnic Studies. 28.3 (1996): 106-209.
"Must All Blackness Be American?: Locating Canada in Borden's 'Tightrope Time', or Nationalizing Gilroy's The Black Atlantic." Canadian Ethnic Studies. 28.3 (1996): 56-71.
"Clarke vs. Clarke: Tory Elitism in Austin Clarke's Short Fiction." West Coast Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Criticism. [Vancouver] 22 (31/1; Spring/Summer 1997): 110-128.
"The Birth and Rebirth of Africadian Literature." In Down East: Critical Essays on Contemporary Maritime Canadian Literature. Eds. Wolfgang Hochbruck (Universität Stuttgart) and James Taylor (St. Francis Xavier University). Stuttgart: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1997. 55-80.
"Liberalism and Its Discontents: Reading Black and White in Contemporary Québécois Texts." Journal of Canadian Studies. 31.3 (Autumn 1996): 59-77.
"The Road to North Hatley: Ralph Gustafson's Post-Colonial Paradox." Journal of Eastern Townships. 9 (Fall/Autumn 1996): 21-42.
"White Niggers, Black Slaves: Slavery, Race and Class in T. C. Haliburton's The Clockmaker." Nova Scotia Historical Review. 14. 1 (June 1994): 13-40.
"Towards a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry." Revue Frontenac / Frontenac Review. 9 (1992): 45-63.
"Michael Ondaatje and the Production of Myth." Studies in Canadian Literature. 16.1 (1991): 1-21.
"The Career of Black English: A Literary Sketch." In The English Language in Nova Scotia. Eds. Lilian Falk and Margaret Harry. Lockeport NS: Roseway Publishing, 1999. 125-145.