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The Black Prairie Archives: An Anthology
This anthology establishes a new black prairie literary tradition and transforms inherited understandings of what prairie literature looks and sounds like. It collects varied and unique work by writers who were both conscious and unconscious of themselves as black writers or as “prairie” people. Their letters, recipes, oral literature, autobiographies, rap, and poetry- provide vivid glimpses into the reality of their lived experiences and give meaning to them.
Karena Vernon is Associate Professor and Associate Chair Department of English, University of Toronto. Her work focuses on Black Canadian literature, Black aesthetics, Black archives, and Black-Indigenous solidarities.
Other publications from this author include:
- “To the End of the Hyphen-Nation: Decolonizing Multiculturalism” in English Studies in Canada, 42 (3-4), 81-98 (2016)
- “Black Civility: Grammars of Black Protest on the Canadian Prairies 1905-1950” in Special Issue CLR James Journal: Black Canadian Thought, 20 (1-2), 83-96 (2014)
- “The First Black Prairie Novel: Chief Buffalo Child Long Lance’s Autobiography and the Repression of Prairie Blackness” in Journal of Canadian Studies 45 (2) (2011)
- Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007)