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According to Wikipedia, George Elliott Clarke, is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015, and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work is known largely for its use of a vast range of literary and artistic traditions , its lush physicality and its bold political substance. One of Canada's most illustrious poets, Clarke is also known for chronicling the experience and history of the Black Canadian communities of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, creating a cultural geography that he has coined "Africadia".

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Black Like Who?: Writing Black Canada by Rinaldo Walcott (review) (2014) (133)
Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature (2002) (54)
A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging by Dionne Brand (review) (2014) (52)
Racism, Eh ? A Critical Inter-Disciplinary Anthology of Race and Racism in Canada (2004) (51)
White Like Canada (1997) (32)
"This is no hearsay": Reading the Canadian Slave Narratives (2005) (23)
Tourists with Typewriters: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Travel Writing by Patrick Holland, Graham Huggan (review) (2019) (20)
Wealth Distribution in Nova Scotia during the Confederation Era, 1851 and 1871 (1992) (15)
Done with Slavery: The Black Fact in Montreal, 1760–1840 (review) (2012) (14)
THE REFUGEE: The Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada (1969) (13)
John Bellers : his life, times, and writings (1987) (12)
Must All Blackness Be American ? Locating Canada in Borden's ‘Tightrope Time’ or Nationalizing Gilroy’s The Black Atlantic: For Blair Arnold States (1959–2001) (2002) (11)
Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing (2002) (11)
Notes on Early Life in New Zealand (2009) (10)
Rude: Contemporary Black Canadian Cultural Criticism ed. by Rinaldo Walcott (review) (2014) (10)
Harris, Philip, Brand: Three Authors in Search of Literate Criticism (2000) (9)
Directions Home: Approaches to African-Canadian Literature (2012) (9)
Michel Ondaatje and the Production of Myth (1991) (6)
Threading Light: Explorations in Loss and Poetry by Lorri Neilsen Glenn (review) (2013) (6)
Contesting a Model Blackness: A Meditation on African-Canadian African-Americanism, or the Structures of African-Canadianite For John P. Matthews (1928–1995) (2002) (6)
Liberalism and Its Discontents: Reading Black and White in Contemporary Québécois Texts (1996) (5)
Vendetta: The True Story of the Largest Lynching in U.S. History by Richard Gambino (review) (2014) (5)
The Complex Face of Black Canada (2002) (4)
Black Islanders: Prince Edward Island’s Historical Black Community by Jim Hornby (review) (2016) (4)
HIERARCHY, STATUS AND SOCIAL HISTORY IN NEPAL (2022) (4)
Racing Shelley, or reading The Cenci as a gothic slave narrative (2000) (3)
Research design in the use of China's census and survey data for rural areas and households. (1992) (3)
The crime of poetry (2004) (2)
Canadian Biraciality and Its "Zebra" Poetics (2002) (2)
'Symposia' in the Drama of Trey Anthony and Louise Delisle (2009) (2)
9. Does (Afro-) Caribbean- Canadian Literature Exist? In the Caribbean? (2012) (2)
Embarkation: Discovering African-Canadian Literature (2002) (2)
Raising raced and erased executions in african-canadian literature: Or, unearthing Angelique (2002) (2)
White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada (review) (2009) (1)
A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood (Coloured Man) by Thomas Smallwood (review) (2014) (1)
THE MULTICULTURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF ONTARIO, Many Rivers to Cross: The African-Canadian Experience (1993) (1)
"How White Are Your Whites?" A Response to Daniel Coleman's White Civility: The Literary Project of English Canada (2008) (1)
Opera in Canada: A Conversation (2000) (1)
Inking BC in Black and Blue (2003) (1)
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past by Winfried Siemerling (review) (2017) (1)
7. Let Us Compare Anthologies: Harmonizing the Founding African-Canadian and Italian-Canadian Literary Collections (2012) (1)
An Anatomy of the Originality of African-Canadian Thought (2014) (1)
No Language Is Neutral: Seizing English for Ourselves For You, Close Reader (2002) (1)
Clarke versus Clarke: Tory Elitism in Austin Clarke's Short Fiction For Austin Clarke (1934-) (2002) (1)
Viewing African Canada (2002) (1)
On the Centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution: A Canticle (2018) (1)
Chapter Five. A Stranger Rapist and a Murderer: Early Success with DNA Evidence (2020) (0)
Trans.Can.Lit: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature (review) (2009) (0)
Chapter Eleven. Exonerations, Databases, and STRs (2020) (0)
The Death and Rebirth ofAfricadian Nationalism (2002) (0)
The Voices of African Canada: A Foreword (2018) (0)
Chapter Seven. A Child and a Critical Nightshirt (2020) (0)
4. Afro-Gynocentric Darwinism in the Drama of George Elroy Boyd (2012) (0)
The True History of Jesse Williams (2019) (0)
On Selecting Irving Layton’s Seductive Invective; or, an Addendum to Trehearne (2012) (0)
Hannibal upon Rome and: Longfellow Composes a “Blues” and: Concerning Léopold II (ca. 1899) and: Frederick Douglass Considers General Robert E. Lee (2014) (0)
An Unprejudiced View of Two Africadian Poets (2002) (0)
Ante-Bellum, Autumn 1860 By Abraham Lincoln, and: Letter to the (African Baptist) Messiah (2013) (0)
2. A.B. Walker and Anna Minerva Henderson: Two Afro–New Brunswick Responses to ‘The Black Atlantic’ (2012) (0)
The Outraged Citizen-Poet Speaks Out (2002) (0)
Dedication for this Issue (2013) (0)
The Birth and Rebirth of Africadian Literature: For Portia May White (1911–68) (2002) (0)
Chapter Seventeen. Helena Greenwood Revisited (2020) (0)
Toward a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry: For Arnold ‘Ted’ Davidson (1936–99) (2002) (0)
À Cristoforo Colombo (III) / George Boyer Vashon Drafts “Vincent Ogé” (2015) (0)
8. The Idea of Europe in African- Canadian Literature (2012) (0)
A Primer of African-Canadian Literature: For Lorris Elliott (1932–99) (2002) (0)
Canadian Historical Review Best Article Prize, 2020 (2021) (0)
Ralph and Ada Cromwell : A Lifetime of Making (1992) (0)
Love Which Is Insight (2002) (0)
Chapter Twelve. A National Approach (2020) (0)
3. Introducing a Distinct Genre of African-Canadian Literature: The Church Narrative (2012) (0)
Anna Minerva Henderson (2006) (0)
Another Great Thing (2002) (0)
Chapter Three. The Transition to DNA Evidence (2020) (0)
Who Listens to Us Now (2002) (0)
Ten African-Canadian Plays To Watch (Catch) Thus Far This Century (2019) (0)
Divagation – Approaching African-Canadian Literature (Again) (2012) (0)
REVIEW ESSAYS/NOTES CRITIQUE Fighting Words: (2013) (0)
The Bipartisan Campaign Begins (2013) (0)
Justice and science (2007) (0)
Chapter Sixteen. A Cold-Hit DNA Match Solves an Old Crime (2020) (0)
Treason of the Black Intellectuals? For Burnley A. (‘Rocky’) Jones (1937-) (2002) (0)
11. Repatriating Arthur Nortje (2012) (0)
Escape To Th'Escarpment! (2013) (0)
Book Reviews (2000) (0)
Diary of Sally Hemings à Paris (II), and: To Milton by Phillis Wheatley (1773) (2016) (0)
Ecclesiasticus (V) and: Wisdom of Solomon (XIX) and: Wisdom of Solomon (II) (2018) (0)
On Pamela Mordecai’s “Passion Plays”: A Plea for Their Performance (2019) (0)
Illinois Record Of Stevenson Is ' Foretaste ’ Two More Parties Denied Ballot Rights (2016) (0)
The Progress of Servitude (2019) (0)
Writers of the Renaissance (1991) (0)
Chapter Six. A Double-Edged Sword: DNA for and against the Prosecution (2020) (0)
Chapter Fifteen. The Tragic Case of a Small Child (2020) (0)
14. Bring da Noise: The Poetics of Performance, Chez d’bi. young and Oni Joseph (2012) (0)
Chapter Ten. When a Match Is Not a Match (2020) (0)
Anna Minerva Henderson : An afro-new nrunswick response to Canadian (modernist) Poetry (2006) (0)
Annapolis Valley Sanskrit (2006) (0)
15. Frederick Ward: Writing as Jazz (2012) (0)
Lincoln Reviews the Prospects for Peace (Pace Appomattox), and: Julius Caesar's Report on His Assassination, and: Nat Turner Talks (1831) (2017) (0)
I. iii (Everything is Holy) (1998) (0)
Book of Abstracts\374 (2008) (0)
AAR Centennial Roundtable: CANTICLES: Hymns of the African Baptists of Nova Scotia (2014) (0)
A Note—Imagining an Africa That Never Was:: (2020) (0)
Introduction: Science in the Courtroom (2020) (0)
Liberalism and Its Discontents: Reading Black and White in Contemporary Quebecois Texts For Gérard Étienne (1936-) (2002) (0)
Alden Nowlan: Essays on His Works (review) (2008) (0)
Eyeing the Red Storm (1997) (0)
Flight From the Congo by William G. Stairs (2013) (0)
Toward a Black Women’s Canadian History (2002) (0)
[Review of] Ernest R. Myers, The Community Psychology Concept: Integrating Theory, Education, and Practice in Psychology, Social Work, and Public Administration (1979) (0)
Canadian Biraciality and Its ‘Zebra’ Poetics For Walter M. Borden (1942-) (2002) (0)
Chapter Eight. DNA and a Football Hero Collide (2020) (0)
INTRA-NATIONAL INTEGRATION (1999) (0)
Ballad: To Vote "Yes" Always for the Winnipeg General Strike! (2019) (0)
Review: The Community Psychology Concept: Integrating Theory, Education, and Practice in Psychology, Social Work, and Public Administration by Ernest R. Myers (1979) (0)
The Book Of Samson (Repressed Excerpt From Judges) (2018) (0)
Towards a Pedagogy of African-Canadian Literature (2009) (0)
The Career of Black English in Nova Scotia: A Literary Sketch For Geraldine Elizabeth Clarke (1939–2000) (2002) (0)
Canadian Biraciality and Its “Zebra” Poetics: For Adrienne Shadd (2022) (0)
Anti-Hannibal Elegy (2014) (0)
Syl Cheney-Coker's Nova Scotia, or the Limits of Pan-Africanism (2002) (0)
Africana Canadiana: A Select Bibliography of Literature by African-Canadian Authors, 1785-2001, in English, French, and Translation (2002) (0)
Chapter Four. The Fight for Acceptance (2020) (0)
American Wesleyan Methodist Missions of Sierra Leone, West Africa (0)
What Spines to Crack, What Leaves to Thumb! On Uncovering Black History in Atlantic Canada, from Cover to Cover (2021) (0)
The Critique of African-Canadian Literature… (2004) (0)
The Apocrypha of Whylah Falls (1994) (0)
Where did all the trees come from? an analysis of Bridgeman's planting at stowe (1985) (0)
Reasserting the Canon of Black Canadian Literature: A Review of Winfried Siemerling’s The Black Atlantic Reconsidered / : Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History and the Presence of the Past. By Winfried Siemerling. (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2015. 540pp. ISBN 978-0-7735-4507-6) (2019) (0)
Black Then: Blacks and Montreal, 1780s-1880s (review) (2007) (0)
Growing Up Black in Alberta (2002) (0)
5. Seeing Through Race: Surveillance of Black Males in Jessome, Satirizing Black Stereotypes in James (2012) (0)
Jim Crow Also Lived Here: Structural Racism and Generational Poverty–Growing Up Black in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by Leonard Albert Paris (review) (2021) (0)
13. Maxine Tynes: A Sounding and a Hearing (2012) (0)
Chapter Nine. Back Home in San Diego: An Unusual Rape Case (2020) (0)
Bio: Black Baptist/Bastard (1998) (0)
Fred Ho Plays Malcolm X: A Review of Wicked Theory, Naked Practice: A Fred Ho Reader (2009) (0)
Fire on the Water (2002) (0)
Chapter One. The Scientist Becomes a Victim (2020) (0)
Jim Crow Also Lived Here: Structural Racism and Generational Poverty – Growing Up Black in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Leonard Albert Paris (2021) (0)
Harris, Philip, Brand: Three Authors in Search of Literate Criticism For Hardial Bains (1939–97) (2002) (0)
12. Locating the Early Dionne Brand: Landing a Voice (2012) (0)
10. Voluptuous Rapine: The Viscous Economy of ‘Vice’ in the Short Fiction of H. Nigel Thomas and Althea Prince (2012) (0)
Sounding John Thompson’s White Noise (2011) (0)

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