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:
  1. 2.
    Despair: And Other Stories
    by Andre Alexis

  2. 3.
    ?
    The Survivors of the Crossing
    by Arthur C. Clarke

  3. 4.
    The Meeting Point: The Toronto Trilogy
    by Austin Clarke

  4. 5.
    Storm of fortune;: A novel,
    by Austin Clarke

  5. 6.
    ?
    The bigger light;
    by Austin Clarke

  6. 7.
    The Polished Hoe: A Novel
    by Austin Clarke

  7. 8.
    Villa Fair
    by Bernadette Dyer

  8. 9.
    Waltzes I Have Not Forgotten
    by Bernadette Gabay Dyer

  9. 10.
    ?
    La pacotille: Roman (Collection Fictions)
    by Gérard Etienne

  10. 11.
    ?
    No Man in the House
    by Cecil Foster

  11. 12.
    ?
    Stranger at the Gate

  12. 13.
    ?
    The eye of the storm
    by John Hearne

  13. 14.
    Brown Girl in the Ring
    by Nalo Hopkinson

  14. 15.
    The Salt Roads
    by Nalo Hopkinson

  15. 16.
    ?
    Dining With the Dictator
    by Dany Laferriere

  16. 17.
    Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?
    by Dany Laferriere

  17. 18.
    Down among the dead men
    by Dany Laferrière

  18. 19.
    ?
    A drifting year
    by Dany Laferriere

  19. 20.
    Moon Honey (Nunatak Series)
    by Suzette Mayr

  20. 21.
    Venous Hum
    by Suzette Mayr

  21. 22.
    Out of My Skin
    by Tessa McWatt

  22. 23.
    This Body
    by Tessa McWatt

  23. 24.
    Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
    by Nega Mezlekia

  24. 25.
    Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence
    by Marlene Nourbese Philip

  25. 26.
    Harriets Daughter
    by Marlene Philip

  26. 27.
    Diss/Ed Banded Nation
    by David N. Odhiambo

  27. 28.
    ?
    Passages

  28. 29.
    No Crystal Stair
    by Eva Rutland

  29. 30.
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    In Silence the Strands Unravel
    by Sybil Seaforth

  30. 31.
    Her Head: A Village
    by Makeda Silvera

  31. 32.
    Behind the Face of Winter
    by H. Nigel Thomas

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Created by starlagurl on Apr 18, 2006.
 

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