Required – 2000 words – 3 to 4 scholarly secondary resources Name of course – Black Literature and Culture in Canada Texts read: – Performance Bond, Wayde Compton (poetry) – The Second Life of Samuel Tyne, Andrea Davis (novel) – Land to Light On, Dionne Bond (poetry) – Out of My Skin, Tessa McWatt (novel) I have the choice of two essay topics: – 1. Some of the texts we have read consider the ways processes of racialization, marginalization and/or erasures are very different for women and men. Explore the intersecting politics of race and gender in one or two texts on the course. In your discussion, focus on either masculinity or femininity (you won’t have space to do both). OR – 2. In Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada, Rinaldo Walcott suggests that “it is useful to read Black Canadian works within the context of black diasporic discourses”. Explore one or two texts that engage with questions of nation and diaspora? What are the texts saying about “Canada” and the relationship to other nations, spaces and/or geographies? How are they situating Canada within broader diasporic contexts? I have included the syllabus of all material read
