This response takes as its starting point the twofold agenda Winfried Siemerling pursues in The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: his systematic outline of a history of Black writing in Canada from the eighteenth century to the present and his goal to fill a geographical gap in Paul Gilroy’s influential concept of the Black Atlantic, thereby also offering a reconsideration of this concept. I suggest that, although Siemerling is clearly successful with regard to the first aspect, he is only partially so with regard to the second, with the logic of a nation-based literary history to some extent countering the agenda of the constitutive transnationality of the Black Atlantic. This tension between the two agendas, I suggest, results in crucial questions concerning the complex relationship among the national, the transnational, and the diasporic in the specific logic of literary histories.

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国家的、跨国的和散居的：加拿大黑人写作和文学史的逻辑

这一回应以 Winfried Siemerling 所追求的双重议程为出发点。重新考虑黑大西洋：他对 18 世纪至今加拿大黑人写作历史的系统概述，以及他填补保罗·吉尔罗伊（Paul Gilroy）有影响力的黑人大西洋概念中的地理空白的目标，从而也提供了对这一概念的重新思​​考。我认为，尽管西默林在第一方面显然是成功的，但在第二方面他只是部分成功，以民族为基础的文学史逻辑在一定程度上与黑人构成性跨国性的议程背道而驰大西洋。我认为，这两个议程之间的这种紧张关系导致了有关文学史特定逻辑中民族、跨国和流散者之间复杂关系的关键问题。