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Where the Racial State Meets the Black Atlantic: Reflections on Winfried Siemerling’s The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry Pub Date : 2020-12-29 , DOI: 10.1017/pli.2020.33
Barrington Walker

Winfried Siemerling’s The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Historical Past, to put it mildly, is an impressive piece of scholarship that will stand as one of the definitive works on the histories of Black writing in Canada for the foreseeable future. In his preface, Siemerling states that he embarked upon this undertaking when he learned, to his surprise (one is reminded here, incidentally, of Katherine McKittrick’s injunction that Black Canadian Studies is always constituted as a “surprise”), that there had been little written about Black contemporary writing aside from a few of the comprehensive and encyclopedic works that George Elliot Clarke published in the early to mid-1990s. It is this pioneering work upon which Siemerling builds. He starts with a discussion of “Modernity and Canadian Time-Spaces of the Black Atlantic” in his first chapter and introduction, where he lays out the analytical and conceptual approach of the work. Part 1, “Early Testimony and the Black Canadian Nineteenth Century,” includes chapters titled “Slavery and Early Black Canadian Writing” and “The Black Canadian Nineteenth Century.” Part 2, “The Presence of the Past,” highlights chapters that expand on the themes of “Slavery, the Black Canadian Nineteenth Century, and Caribbean Contexts in Contemporary Black Canadian Writing” and move into a discussion of what he calls “Other Black Canadas” and “Coda: Other Canadas, Other Americas, the Black Atlantic Reconsidered.”

中文翻译:

种族国家与黑大西洋相遇的地方:对温弗里德·西默林 (Winfried Siemerling) 的《重新考虑的黑大西洋》的反思

温弗里德·西默林 (Winfried Siemerling) 的《重新思考的黑色大西洋:加拿大黑人写作、文化史和历史的存在》,委婉地说,是一部令人印象深刻的学术著作,将成为加拿大黑人写作史的权威著作之一在可预见的未来。在他的序言中,西默林说,当他得知,令他惊讶的是(顺便提一下,凯瑟琳·麦基特里克(Katherine McKittrick)关于加拿大黑人研究总是被构成“意外”的禁令)时,他开始从事这项工作。除了乔治·埃利奥特·克拉克(George Elliot Clarke)在 1990 年代初期至中期出版的一些综合性和百科全书式的作品之外,还写了关于黑人当代写作的文章。西默林正是在这项开创性工作的基础上建立起来的。他在第一章和导言中首先讨论了“黑大西洋的现代性和加拿大时空”,在那里他阐述了这项工作的分析和概念方法。第 1 部分,“早期证词和 19 世纪加拿大黑人”,包括标题为“奴隶制和早期加拿大黑人写作”和“19 世纪加拿大黑人”的章节。第 2 部分,“过去的存在”,重点介绍了扩展“奴隶制、19 世纪加拿大黑人和当代加拿大黑人写作中的加勒比语境”主题的章节,并开始讨论他所谓的“其他加拿大黑人” ”和“尾声:重新考虑其他加拿大、其他美洲、黑大西洋。” 他在其中阐述了这项工作的分析和概念方法。第 1 部分,“早期证词和 19 世纪加拿大黑人”,包括标题为“奴隶制和早期加拿大黑人写作”和“19 世纪加拿大黑人”的章节。第 2 部分,“过去的存在”,重点介绍了扩展“奴隶制、19 世纪加拿大黑人和当代加拿大黑人写作中的加勒比语境”主题的章节,并开始讨论他所谓的“其他加拿大黑人” ”和“尾声:重新考虑其他加拿大、其他美洲、黑大西洋。” 他在其中阐述了这项工作的分析和概念方法。第 1 部分,“早期证词和 19 世纪加拿大黑人”,包括标题为“奴隶制和早期加拿大黑人写作”和“19 世纪加拿大黑人”的章节。第 2 部分,“过去的存在”,重点介绍了扩展“奴隶制、19 世纪加拿大黑人和当代加拿大黑人写作中的加勒比语境”主题的章节,并开始讨论他所谓的“其他加拿大黑人” ”和“尾声:重新考虑其他加拿大、其他美洲、黑大西洋。”
更新日期:2020-12-29
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