Non-Refereed Articles (1996-2025)

 Non-refereed articles I’ve written since 1996 (updated yearly):

“Michael Mirolla’s Alchemy: Maternity, Mutability, Mortality, & Eternity.” Michael Mirolla: Essays on His Work. Ed. Bianca Lakoseljac. Guernica Editions. [Forthcoming]

“Len Gasparini: That Due South, Great North Beat.” Len Gasparini: Essays on His Work. Ed. J. R. “Tim” Struthers. Guernica Editions. [Forthcoming]

“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. Reprint: Lovers and Thieves: Essays on Michael Ondaatje. Toronto: Guernica Editions. [Forthcoming]

“Regarding Keith Garebian.” Keith Garebian: Essays on His Work. Guernica Editions. [Forthcoming]

“A Note—Imagining an Africa That Never Was: The Anti-Racist / Anti-Imperialist Fantasy of Charles R. Saunders’ Imaro and Its Basis in the Africentric Occult.” Canadian Literature. 240. 2020. 97-105.

“Métis and/or Afro-Métis: Who do you think you are?” Canadian Diversity. Special Issue: Facing the Change. Canada and the International Decade for People of African Descent. 16.4 (2019) [2020]. 41-45.

https://www.ciim.ca/en/fiche-228-Facing_the_Change_Canada_And_the_International_Decade_for_People_of_African_Descent_Part_2  

“Ten African-Canadian Plays to Watch (Catch) Thus Far This Century.” In “Focus on English-Canadian Drama in the New Millennium.” Eds. Albert Rau and Martin Kuester. Anglistic. 30.1 (2019). 47-57.

https://angl.winter-verlag.de/issue/ANGL/2019/1

“The Voices of African Canada: A Foreword.” African American Review. 51.3 (Fall 2018): 1-6.

“Toward Establishing an—or the—“Archive” of African Canadian Literature.” Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada. Reprint, revised. Locating Home: The First African-Canadian Novel and Verse Collections. Ed. George Elliott Clarke. Toronto: Tightrope Books, 2017. 9-32. Originally published in Editing as Cultural Practice in Canada. Eds. Dean Irvine and Smaro Kamboureli.

Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2016. 41-56.

“Frederick Ward: Writing As Jazz.” Reprint. 2005 Anne Szumigalski Lecture. Measures of Astonishment: Poets on Poetry. Ed. League of Canadian Poets. Regina: University of Regina Press, 2016. 33-67.

“Reading the ‘Africville Novel,’ or Displacing ‘Race.’” Cultural Challenges of Migration in Canada / Les défis de la migration au Canada. Eds. Klaus-Dieter Ertler & Patrick Imbert. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2013. 439-452.

“Sighting the Giallo in Ho Che Anderson’s Graphic Texts.” Transformations of the Canadian Cultural Mosaic. Eds. Anna Pia De Luca and Deborah Saidero. Udine, IT: Centro di Cultura Canadese, Università degli Studi di Udine, 2012. 63-81.

“Reading ‘Canon’ Scott’s Canon.” Leaving the Shade of the Middle Ground: The Poetry of F.R. Scott. Ed. Laura Moss. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2011. 61-68.

“Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections.” Pier Giorgio Di Cicco: Essays on His Works. Ed. Joseph Pivato. Toronto: Guernica, 2011. 121-152.

“Canada: The Invisible Empire?” The Canadian Mosaic in the Age of Transnationalism. Eds. Jutta Ernst and Brigitte Glaser. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag, 2010. 19-35.

“Europa w literaturze afrokanadyjskiej.” [“The Idea of Europe in African-Canadian Literature.”] Pantstwo Narod Tozsamosc w Dyskursach Kulturowych Kanady. Eds. Eugenia Sojka and Miroslawa Buchholtz. Krakow, Poland: Universitas, 2010. 228-256.

“Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd.” Theatre in Atlantic Canada: Critical Perspectives in Canadian Theatre in English. Vol. 16. Ed. Linda Burnett. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2010. 121-134.

“Towards a Pedagogy of African-Canadian Literature.” Shared Waters: Soundings in Postcolonial Literatures. [Cross/Cultures #118] Ed. Stella Borg Barthet. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2009. 363-391.

“Is black just another hue of re-white-and-blue? Or, reading Africana: The Americanization of Africa and its diapora.” At Home in the World: Essays and Poems in Honour of Britta Olinder. Eds. Chloé Avril and Ronald Paul. Gothenburg, Sweden: University of Gothenberg, 2008. 37-50.

“The Idea of Europe in African-Canadian Literature.” Zeitschrift für Kanada-Studien. Ed. Martin Kuenster. 26.2 (2006): 39-60. Augsberg, Germany: Wisser-Verlag, 2006.

“Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections.” Belonging in Canada: Immigration and the Politics of Race and Ethnicity. Proceedings from the 19th Annual Reddin Symposium. Ed. Mark Kasoff. Bowling Green, OH: Canadian Studies Center, Bowling Green State University, 2006. 37-57.

“Frederick Ward: Writing As Jazz.” Prairie Fire. 26.4 (Winter, 2005-06): 4-31.

“Writing the Pax Canadiana: Terror Abroad, Torture at Home.” Building Liberty: Canada and World Peace, 1945-2005. Eds. Conny Steenman-Marcusse and Aritha van Herk. Groningen, NL: Barkhuis Publishing, 2005. 213-36.

“Anne Szumigalski and Eli Mandel: Two Blakean Poets.” The 2004 Caroline Heath Memorial Lecture. Freelance. [Saskatchewan Writers Guild newsletter] 34.4 (January/February 2005): 5-7, & 34.5 (March/April 2005): 6-9.

“Correspondences and Divergences Between Italian-Canadian and African-Canadian Writers.” Canadian Multiculturalism: Dreams, Realities, Expectations. Eds. Matthew Zachariah, Allan Sheppard, Leona Barratt. Edmonton AB: Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation, 2004. 99-108. [Conference Proceedings. “Canada: Model for a Multicultural State Conference, Edmonton, AB, September 27, 2003.”]

“Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd.” Canadian Theatre Review. 118 (Spring 2004): 77-84.

“Gospel as Protest: The African-Nova Scotia Spiritual and the Lyrics of Delvina Bernard.” Rebel Musics: Human Rights, Resistant Sounds, and the Politics of Music Making. Eds. Daniel Fischlin and Ajay Heble. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2003. 108-19.

“What Was Canada?” Is Canada Postcolonial?: Unsettling Canadian Literature. Ed. Laura Moss. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003. 27-39.

"Race and Racism in Canadian Literature." Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. Ed. W.H. New. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. 922-926.

“George Elliott Clarke to Derek Walcott: ‘I write in a cold place.’” Open Letter. 11.3 (Fall 2001): 15-17.

“The Aesthetics of Justice.” Convocation Address at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John, New Brunswick, May 19, 2000. The Gaspereau Review. 16 (Summer 2001): 9-14.

“Philly Talks #18: A Conversation Among C.S. Giscombe, Barry McKinnon, Wayde Compton, Giovanni Singleton, and George Elliott Clarke.” Ed. Louis Cabri. www.english.upenn.edu/phillytalks. February 2, 2001.

“An Open Letter to Derek Walcott.” The Strand. [Toronto, ON] 43.9 (January 31, 2001): 6.

“Opera in Canada: A Conversation.” With Linda Hutcheon. Interview by Christl Verduyn. Journal of Canadian Studies. 35.3 (Fall 2000): 184-198.

Treason of the Black Intellectuals? Reprint of Working Paper of the Third Annual Seagram Lecture Presented on November 4, 1998 (Montreal: McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 1999). www.africanada.com. Ed. Corey Skinner. Oct. 2000.

Remarks. In “U.S./Canadian Writers’ Perspectives On The Multiculturalism Debate: A Round-Table Discussion at Harvard University.” Eds. Graham Huggan & Winfried Siemerling. Canadian Literature. 164 (Spring 2000): 82-111.

“African-Canadian Literature.” The Companion to African Literatures. Eds. Douglas Killam and Ruth Rowe. Oxford and Bloomington, IN: James Currey and Indiana University Press, 2000. 15-18.

"White Like Canada." Transition: An International Review. 73 (7.1, 1998): 98-109.

"A Primer of African-Canadian Literature." Kola: A Black Literary Magazine. 9.1 (1997): 26-34. Rpt. from Books in Canada. 25.2 (March 1996): 5-7.

"A Primer of African-Canadian Literature." Books in Canada. 25.2 (March 1996): 5-7.