Essential Black Canadian Writing

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"An anthology can serve only as an introduction to a literature, and Revival is no exception," Bailey Nurse writes in the introduction to Revival. The anthology includes a list of recommended fiction, non-fiction, drama, criticism and race writing. What follows is Bailey Nurse’s recommended list of fiction:

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    Despair: And Other Stories
    by Andre Alexis

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    The Survivors of the Crossing
    by Arthur C. Clarke

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    The Meeting Point: The Toronto Trilogy
    by Austin Clarke

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    Storm of fortune;: A novel,
    by Austin Clarke

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    The bigger light;
    by Austin Clarke

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    The Polished Hoe: A Novel
    by Austin Clarke

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    Villa Fair
    by Bernadette Dyer

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    Waltzes I Have Not Forgotten
    by Bernadette Gabay Dyer

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    La pacotille: Roman (Collection Fictions)
    by Gérard Etienne

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    No Man in the House
    by Cecil Foster

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    Stranger at the Gate

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    The eye of the storm
    by John Hearne

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    Brown Girl in the Ring
    by Nalo Hopkinson

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    The Salt Roads
    by Nalo Hopkinson

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    Dining With the Dictator
    by Dany Laferriere

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    Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?
    by Dany Laferriere

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    Down among the dead men
    by Dany Laferrière

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    A Drifting Year
    by Dany Laferriere

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    Moon Honey (Nunatak Series)
    by Suzette Mayr

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    Venous Hum
    by Suzette Mayr

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    Out of My Skin
    by Tessa McWatt

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    This Body
    by Tessa McWatt

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    Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
    by Nega Mezlekia

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    Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence
    by M. Nourbese Philip

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  25. 26.
    Harriets Daughter
    by Marlene Philip

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    Diss/Ed Banded Nation
    by David N. Odhiambo

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    Passages

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    No Crystal Stair
    by Eva Rutland

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    In Silence the Strands Unravel
    by Sybil Seaforth

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    Her Head: A Village
    by Makeda Silvera

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    Behind the Face of Winter
    by H. Nigel Thomas

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Created by starlagurl on Apr 18, 2006.
 

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