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Essential Black Canadian Writing

"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. Revival : An Anthology of the Best Black Canadian Writing  
2. Despair: And Other Stories
by Andre Alexis
  
3.
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 The Survivors of the Crossing
by Arthur C. Clarke
  
4. The Meeting Point: The Toronto Trilogy
by Austin Clarke
  
5.
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 Storm of fortune;: A novel,
by Austin Clarke
  
6.
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 The bigger light;
by Austin Clarke
  
7. The Polished Hoe: A Novel
by Austin Clarke
  
8. Villa Fair
by Bernadette Dyer
  
9.
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 Waltzes I Have Not Forgotten
by Bernadette Gabay Dyer
  
10.
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 La pacotille: Roman (Collection Fictions)
by Gérard Etienne
  
11.
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 No Man in the House
by Cecil Foster
  
12.
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 Stranger at the Gate  
13.
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 The eye of the storm
by John Hearne
  
14. Brown Girl in the Ring
by Nalo Hopkinson
  
15. The Salt Roads
by Nalo Hopkinson
  
16.
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 Dining With the Dictator
by Dany Laferriere
  
17.
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 Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?
by Dany Laferriere
  
18.
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 Down among the dead men
by Dany Laferrière
  
19.
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 A Drifting Year
by Dany Laferriere
  
20. Moon Honey (Nunatak Series)
by Suzette Mayr
  
21. Venous Hum
by Suzette Mayr
  
22. Out of My Skin
by Tessa McWatt
  
23. This Body
by Tessa McWatt
  
24. Notes from the Hyena's Belly: An Ethiopian Boyhood
by Nega Mezlekia
  
25. Looking for Livingstone: An Odyssey of Silence
by M. Nourbese Philip
  
26. Harriets Daughter
by Marlene Philip
  
27. Diss/Ed Banded Nation
by David N. Odhiambo
  
28.
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 Passages  
29. No Crystal Stair
by Eva Rutland
  
30.
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 In Silence the Strands Unravel
by Sybil Seaforth
  
31. Her Head: A Village
by Makeda Silvera
  
32. Behind the Face of Winter
by H. Nigel Thomas
  
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Created by starlagurl on Apr 18, 2006.