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The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
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Two MQUP Titles Named Finalists for 2015 Gabriel Roy Prize
The Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (ACQL) announced the finalists for the 2015 Gabrielle Roy Prize (English section), and we are very pleased to say that two MQUP titles were on the shortlist!
The shortlist includes Paul Huebener for Timing Canada: The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture (McGill-Queen’s University Press) and Winfried Siemerling for The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (McGill Queen’s University Press), as well as Margery Fee for Literary Land Claims: The “Indian Land Question” from Pontiac’s War to Attawapiskat (Wilfrid Laurier University Press).
The Gabrielle Roy Prize (English section) is awarded each year and honours the best work of Canadian literary criticism published in English. The winner will be announced on May 28th at the ACQL’s annual conference. Congratulations once again to Paul Huebener, Winfried Siemerling and Margery Fee (Wilfrid Laurier University Press) on their nominations!
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past
A survey of English and French black Canadian writing and its transnational connections from the eighteenth century to the present.
Readers are often surprised to learn that black writing in Canada is over two centuries old. Ranging from letters, editorials, sermons, and slave narratives to contemporary novels, plays, poetry, and non-fiction, black Canadian writing represents a rich body of literary and cultural achievement. Read more>
Timing Canada
The Shifting Politics of Time in Canadian Literary Culture
By Paul Huebener
Time as a form of power in Canadian society, literature, and cultural imagination.
From punch clocks to prison sentences, from immigration waiting periods to controversial time-zone boundaries, from Indigenous grave markers that count time in centuries rather than years, to the fact that free time is shrinking faster for women than for men – time shapes the fabric of Canadian society every day, but in ways that are not always visible or logical. Read more>
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