A List of Supplemental Links to Chapter 4
4.1. SLAVERY, THE BLACK CANADIAN NINETEENTH CENTURY, AND CARIBBEAN CONTEXTS IN CONTEMPORARY BLACK CANADIAN WRITING 155
Questioning Black Canadian History: Lorris Elliott’s “Angélique” Fragment 157
Black Canadian History and Lawrence Hill’s Any Known Blood and The Book of Negroes 160
Any Known Blood: Revising and Re-appropriating the Canadian Slave Narrative 160
- Lawrence Hill (lawrencehill.com)
- “Why I’m Not Allowed My Book Title,” Lawrence Hill, 20 May 2008 (The Guardian)
- “What Lawrence Hill Tells,” 20 June 2011 (Toronto Star)
- “Heated Debates, Burning Books,” 21 June 2011 (The New Yorker)
- “Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book,” Lawrence Hill, excerpt (lawrencehill.com)
- “Dear Sir, I Intend to Burn Your Book,” Q Interview, 16 April 2013 (CBC)
- “Black + White … Equals Black,” Lawrence Hill, 27 August 2001, Maclean’s
- Frederick Douglass, Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, 1881 (Documenting the American South)
- “May I See Some Identification?: Race, Borders, and Identities in Any Known Blood,” Winfried Siemerling, Autumn 2004, Canadian Literature 182 (can lit.ca)
- “Black Like Us,” Lawrence Hill, 9 February 2000 (The Globe and Mail)
The Book of Negroes 170
- Book of Negroes “African Nova Scotians: In the Age of Slavery and Abolition,” 1783, Guy Carleton, The National Archives, Kew (Nova Scotia Archives)
- The Book of Negroes, 1783 (blackloyalist.com)
- “Bamanankan,” Irene Thompson (About World Languages)
- “Fula Language on the Internet,” African Studies (Columbia Universities)
- Mungo Park, Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa: Performed in the Years 1795, 1796, and 1797, 1816 (archive.org)
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African. Written by Himself, 1789 (Documenting the American South)
- John Clarkson biography (blackloyalist.com)
- John Clarkson, Clarkson’s Mission to America, 1791-92 (Our Roots: Canada’s Local Histories Online)
- Freetown, Sierra Leone (1792-) (blackpast.org)
- Lord Dunmore’s 1775 Proclamation (blackpast.org)
- The Philipsburg Proclamation of 1779 (blackloyalist.com)
- The Paris Peace Treaty 1783 and Associated Documents (The Avalon Project, Yale Law School)
- “Memoirs of the Life of Boston King, a Black Preacher, Written by Himself during His Residence at Kingswood School,” Boston King, Methodist Magazine, 1798 (Antislavery Literature)
- Memoirs of Boston King (blackloyalist.com)
- Black Loyalist Refugees, 1782-1807 — Port Roseway Associates (Library and Archives Canada)
- History of Port Roseway / Shelburne (Town of Shelburne)
- “The Port Roseway Loyalists” (Virtual Museum)
- “Black Loyalists Nova Scotia – Under a Northern Star” (Library and Archives Canada)
- “The Loyalist Experiment of Shelburne, Nova Scotia” (Chebucto Community Net)
- Birchtown (blackloyalist.com)
- Birchtown, Nova Scotia (African Nova Scotian Affairs)
- “Birchtown Black Loyalists, 1783: Photographs of Memorial” (Nova Scotia’s Electric Scrapbook)
- “Birchtown’s Remains,” Television clip, 1999 (CBC)
- “Black Loyalist Museum Rising From Ashes IN Birchtown,” 24 February 2012 (CBC)
- “Savagery in Shelburne: North America’s First Race Riot,” Jesse Robertson, 24 July 2014 (Historica Canada)
- “Black History Canada: Departure of Black Loyalists” (Black History Canada)
- “A Black Wood Cutter at Shelburne, Nova Scotia,” William Booth, 1788 (Black History in Canada)
- David George, “An account of the life of Mr. David George, from Sierra Leone in Africa; given by himself in a conversation with Brother Rippon of London, and Brother Pearce of Birmingham,” 1793, the Baptist Annual Register (blackloyalist.com)
- John Marrant, A Narrative of the Lord’s Wonderful Dealings with John Marrant, A Black, 1785 (archive.org)
- Moses Wilkinson (blackloyalist.info)
- “The Radical Methodist Congregation of Daddy Moses” (blackloyalist.info)
- Moses Wilkinson (blackloyalist.com)
- “Peters (Petters), Thomas” (Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
- Thomas Peters (Black Loyalists in New Brunswick)
- Thomas Peters (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “Thomas Peters: A Dedicated Leader” (virtualmuseum.ca)
- “Granville Sharp (1735-1813): The Civil Servant” (The Abolition Project)
- The Sierra Leone Company (blackloyalist.com)
4.2. CANADIAN SLAVERY AND BLACK CANADIAN WRITING: LORENA GALE AND GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE 185
Imagining Angélique 186
- François-Xavier Garneau, Histoire du Canada 4th édition, 1882 (archive.org)
- “Échos historiques et culturels” (Great Unsolved Moments in Canadian History)
- “200 Years a Slave: The Dark History of Captivity in Canada,” Robert Everett-Green, 28 February 2014 (The Globe and Mail)
- “Histoire Canada se souvient de Marcel Trudel – 1917-2011″ (Histoire Canada)
- Marcel Trudel (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “Lorris Elliott 1931-1999,” Sheri Elaine Metzger, 2003 (encyclopedia.com)
- Biographie de Paul Fehmiu-Brown (africultures.com)
- Micheline Bail (michelinebail.com)
- Faith Nolan (faithnolan.org)
- Angélique (film), Rightime Production, 1999 (youtube.com)
- Black Hands: Trial of the Arsonist Slave (film trailers), Bel Ange Moon Productions, 2010 (blackhandsfilm.com)
- Justice in New France: Crime and Punishment/La Justice en Nouvelle-France: Crimes et châtiments (chateauramezay.qc.ca)
- “De Remarquables Oubliés,” 6 November 2007 (Radio Canada)
- “Torture and Truth: Angélique and the Burning of Montreal” (Great Unresolved Mysteries in Canadian History)
- “Second interrogation of Angélique, audience of 3 PM, 3 May 1734.” (Great Unresolved Mysteries in Canadian History)
Transforming the Sentence of History: Lorena Gale’s Angélique 189
- Lorena Gale (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “Jerry Wasserman: Je me souviens de Lorena Gale,” J. Kelly Nestruck, 7 July 2009 (The Globe and Mail)
- Lorena Gale – In Memoriam (Black in Canada)
- François Poulin de Francheville (Dictionary of Canadian Biography)
After Angélique, beyond Black Angels: George Elliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy 194
- “Resistance from the Margins in George Elliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy,” Katherine Larson, Canadian Literature 189, Summer 2006 (canlit.ca)
- Beatrice Chancy review, 1999 (Quill and Quire)
- George Elliott Clarke, list of publications and productions (University of Toronto)
- George Elliott Clarke – Biography (Waterfront Views)
- John Clarkson’s account of the story of Lydia Jackson (Nova Scotia Archives)
- “Freedom Denied” (Lydia Jackson mentioned in 3rd paragraph) (blackloyalist.com)
- “Twice Enslaved, Twice Freed,” Stephen Davidson (United Empire Loyalists’ Association of Canada)
- George Elliott Clarke, Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues, 1983 (Dalhousie University)
- Harriet Beecher Stowe, Uncle Tom’s Cabin (or Life among the Lowly), 1852 (gutenberg.org)
- “Beatrice Chancy,” George Elliott Clarke, from Beatrice Chancy, 1999 (University of Toronto Libraries)
- “Interview – Standing Your Ground: George Elliott Clarke in Conversation,” Anne Compton, 23.2, 1998 (Studies in Canadian Literature)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci
- “George Elliott Clarke’s Beatrice Chancy: Sublimity, Pain, Possibility,” Donna Heiland, Postfeminist Gothic Critical Interventions in Contemporary Culture (see Chapter 9)
- David Bradley (encyclopedia.com)
- “Loyalties: A Trip down Slavery Lane” (blog post), 31 August 2012 (National Film Board)
- Loyalties review, 8 September 2000 (CM Magazine)
- Carmelita Robinson, “Black Loyalists of Nova Scotia: Tracing the History of Tracadie Loyalists 1776-1787,” 2000 (Nova Scotia Museum)
- Africville Museum (africvillemuseum.org)
- “Burning cross ignites racial tension in Nova Scotia,” Oliver Moore, 24 February 2010 (Globe and Mail)
- “Mapping Africadia’s Imaginary Geography: An Interview with George Elliott Clarke,” Maureen Moynagh, 27:4, October 1996, PDF (Ariel: A Review of International English Literature)
- “An Interview with George Elliott Clarke” (audio file + full text transcription), Margery Fee and Sneja Gunew, September 2000 (Canadian Literature)
- Whylah Falls entry (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “Whips, Hammers, and Ropes: The Burden of Race and Desire in Clarke’s George & Rue,” Gugu D. Hlongwane, 33.1, 2008 (Studies in Canadian Literature)
- “Re-Visioning Fredericton: Reading George Elliott Clarke’s Execution Poems,” Jennifer Andrews, 2008 (Studies in Canadian Literature)
4.3 ANGLOPHONE CARIBBEAN CANADIAN WRITERS AND THE LEGACIES OF THE PAST 205
Caribbeanness and Caribbean Canadian Time-Spaces 207
- Édouard Glissant (edouardglissant.fr)
- “On ‘the Idea of Latin America'” (waltermignolo.com)
- “Stuart Hall’s Cultural Legacy: Britain under the Microscope,” Stuart Jeffries, 10 February 2014 (The Guardian)
- “Remembering Antonio Benítez-Rojo,” Ivette Romero, 5 January 2010 (repeatingislands.com)
- Lillian Allen (lillianallen.ca)
- Afua Cooper (afuacooper.com)
- Lorna Goodison: Biography / Criticism (Voices from the Gaps: U of Manitoba)
- Nalo Hopkinson (nalohopkinson.com)
- Pamela Mordecai (pamelamordecai.com)
- Althea Prince (aalbc.com)
- Olive Senior (olivesenior.com)
- Nigel Thomas (hnigelthomas.org)
Caribbean Canadian Farm and Domestic Workers: “Like Nothing Ever Change” 213
- Cecil Foster (cecilfoster.ca)
- “Writing Jazz: Gesturing Towards the Possible. Cecil Foster in conversation with Paul Watkins,” Panel video, the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium, 7-9 September 2011 (improvcommunity.ca)
- “The Genesis and Persistence of the Commonwealth Caribbean Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program in Canada,” Irving Andre, 28.2, Summer 1990 (Osgoode Hall Law Journal)
- Temporary Foreign Worker Program (Government of Canada)
- Slammin’ Tar review, 1998 (Quill and Quire)
- Makeda Silvera (Writers of the Caribbean)
- Eva Smith discusses 1955’s West Indian Domestic Scheme (segment in Older Stronger Wiser, Claire Prieto, 1989, NFB)
- Frances Henry & Carol Tator (York University)
- Sister Vision Press, 1985 – (Library Archives Canada)
- “Ottawa Set to Unveil Sweeping Changes to Foreign Workers Program,” John Ibbitson, 28 April 2013 (The Globe and Mail)
- Austin Clarke (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- Austin Clarke (Athabasca University)
Witnessing Empire: Austin Clarke’s The Polished Hoe 221
- “After the Giller: Success once eluded Austin Clarke. Now it feels deserved,” May 2003 (Quill and Quire)
- “Swimming with Barracudas,” Review: The Polished Hoe by Austin Clarke, Maya Jaggi, 3 April 2004 (The Guardian)
- The Polished Hoe – Austin Clarke (video excerpt 7:21 “From the CBC Archives, Austin Clarke in 1963,” audio excerpt 4:17 “Austin Clarke on his Childhood in Barbados”), 1 July 2014 (CBC)
- “Austin Clarke by Linda Richards,” November 2002 (January Magazine)
- W.E.B. Du Bois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903 (bartleby.com)
- “Donna Bailey Nurse: Caribbean Connections,” 21 February 2012 (CBC)
A “story that cannot but must be told”: Marlene NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! 232
- Marlene NourbeSe Philip (nourbese.com)
- Canadian Women Poets: M. NourbeSe Philip (Brock University)
- “M. NourbeSe Philip Reads ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’ from She Tries Her Tongue, Her Silence Softly Breaks (1989),” November 2010 (youtube.com)
- “The Journey of the Word,” March 2010 (The University of the West Indies)
- “The Zong Case” (Romantic Politics)
- The Zong Massacre, 1781 (blackpast.org)
- Zong! Recent Readings / text excerpts / video performances (nourbese.com)
- “First reading of M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong! #6 (3),” Kathy Lou Schultz (jacket2)
- “Zong Massacre, Case of Grayson v Gilbert 1783″ (The National Archives)
- Ian Baucom (University of Virginia)
Dionne Brand: Witnessing and the Inventory 239
- Dionne Brand (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “U.S./Canadian Writers’ Perspectives on the Multiculturalism Debate: A Round-Table Discussion at Harvard University (10 May 1997),” Graham Huggan & Winfried Siemerling, Canadian Literature 164, Spring 2000 (canlit.ca)
- English-Canadian Writers: Dionne Brand (Athabasca University)
- “Poet Dionne Brand Reads from Ossuaries,” The Griffin Prize, “Ossuary VIII” (youtube.com)
- “She’s a Wanderer,” April 1999 (Quill and Quire)
- Review: At the Full and Change of the Moon by Dionne Brand, Maureen Garvie, April 1999 (Quill and Quire)
- “Mapping the Door of No Return,” Marlene Goldman, Canadian Literature 182, Autumn 2004 (canlit.ca)
- “At the Full and Change of CanLit: An Interview with Dionne Brand,” Rinaldo Walcott and Leslie Sanders, 20.2, 2000 (Canadian Women Studies)
- “Excerpt from One Hundred Years of Solitude,” Gabriel García Márquez (nobelprize.org)
- “Tidalectics: Revolution with a Twist: Kamau Brathwaite,” Jacob Edmond, 2012 (jacket2)
- Lyrics: “Canto a Yemayá,” Celia Cruz (letrasdemusica.com.br)
- Derek Walcott:West Indian Poet (Encycopaedia Britannica)
Second-Generation Diasporas and the City: Brand, Chariandy, Alexis 257
- David Chariandy (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “Interview with David Chariandy,” Kat Tancock, March 2008 (Canadian Living)
- “‘A Bruise Still Tender': David Chariandy’s Soucouyant and Cultural Memory,” Jennifer Bowering Delisle, 41.2, 2011, PDF (Ariel)
- “Soucouyant by David Chariandy,” video (youtube.com)
- “The Past As Puzzle,” Donna Bailey Nurse, The Ottawa Citizen, 25 November 2007 (was on canada.com, no longer online)
- André Alexis (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “Somewhere Man: André Alexis,” March 1998 (Quill and Quire)
4.4. WRITING THE HAITIAN DIASPORA IN QUEBEC 275
Oral Knowledge and Intergenerational Transmission in Marie-Célie Agnant’s La Dot de Sara and Le Livre d’Emma 275
- “Marie-Célie Agnant – Île en île” (Lehman College)
- “Marie-Célie Agnant, 5 Questions pour Île en île,” video (youtube.com)
- “Total Recall” (Review of The Book of Emma by Marie-Célie Agnant), Shelley Hulan, Canadian Literature 200, 8 December 2011, (click “Download full issue” to read as PDF and scroll to pgs 122-3)
- «Québec-Haïti. Littérature transculturelle et souffle d’oralité: une entrevue avec Marie-Célie Agnant,» Colette Boucher, Ethnologies 27.1, 2005 (érudit.org)
The Trauma of Duvalier Repression and Impossible Returns: Agnant, Etienne, Ollivier, Laferrière 280
- “François Duvalier,” articles (The New York Times)
- «Un alligator nommé Rosa – Marie-Célie Agnant,» Rachel Vorbe, 15 February 2012 (Le Nouvelliste)
- “Gérard Étienne – Île en île” (Lehman College)
- “Gérard Étienne: l’écrivain juif haïtien au destin hors du commun,” Michaël Assous, 10 September 2011 (Haiti Recto Verso)
- «L’écrivain et son double autobiographique» (Review: Gérard Étienne, Le Nègre crucifié), José Leclerc, Lettres québécoises 75, 1994 (érudit.org)
- “Émile Ollivier – Île en île” (Lehman College)
- “Literary Montreal: Émile Ollivier” (vehiculepress.com)
- Dany Laferrière (The Canadian Encyclopedia)
- “Dany Laferrière – Île en île” (Lehman College)
- “Dany Laferrière: A Life in Books,” Maya Jaggi, 1 February 2013 (The Guardian)