Bibliography for George Elliott Clarke

Poetry and Drama

Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues. Porter's Lake, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 1983. Electronic edition, 2002. ed. Ronald Tetreault. Halifax: Dalhousie University. Posted 23 April 2003 at http://www.dal.ca/etc/clarke/index_std.html

Whylah Falls. Winlaw, B.C.: Polestar Press, 1990, 2nd ed. Vancouver, Polestar Books, 2000. Poetry and prose.

Provençal Songs. Ottawa: Magnum Book Store, 1993.

Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems, 1978-1993. Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Pottersfield Press, 1994.

Provençal Songs II. Ottawa: Above/ground Press, 1997.

Whylah Falls: The Play. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 1999 and 2000.
Also in Testifyin': Contemporary African-Canadian Drama. Vol. 1. Ed. Djanet Sears. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2000. 215-276. Audio cassette recording of CBC Radio Play, Whylah Falls. 2002.

Beatrice Chancy. Victoria: Polstar Books, 1999.

Gold Indigoes. Durham, N.S.: Carolina Wren Press, 2000. Poetry.

Execution Poems. Wolfville , N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2001. Governor General's Award

Blue. Vancouver: Raincoat Books, 2001. Poetry.

Québécité: A Jazz Fantasia in Three Cantos. Kentville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2003.

Illuminated Verses. Toronto: Canadian Scholar Press—Kellom, 2005.

Photographs by Ricardo Scipio.

Selected Poems of George Elliott Clarke in Representative Poetry Online. Ed. Ian Lancashire. University of Toronto http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/479.html

Poeme Incendiare (Burning Poems). Trans into Romanian by Flavia Cosma. Oradea, Romania:  Editura Cogito, 2006. (poems selected from Execution Poems, Blue, Gold Indigoes and Illuminated Verses.)

Black. Vancouver: Raincoast Books, 2006.

Novel

George and Rue. Toronto: HarperCollins, 2005. London: Random House, 2005. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2006.

Libretti

"Beatrice Chancy: A Libretto in Four Acts." Canadian Theatre Review. 96 (Fall 1998).

"Beatrice Chancy: The Opera: A Libretto in Four Acts." Marigraph: Gauging the Tides of Drama from New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island. Ed. Bruce Barton. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2004.

"Québécité: A Jazz Libretto in Three Cantos." Testifyin': Contemporary African-Canadian Drama, Vol II. Ed. Djanet Sears. Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2003.

"Québécité: A Jazz Libretto." Kola. 15.2 (Fall 2003).

George Elliott Clarke has also produced many performance texts for radio and stage.

Anthologies

Ed. Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing. 2 vols. Lawrencetown Beach, N.S.: Potterfield Press, 1991-1992.

A Lifetime of Making: Ralph and Ada Cromwell. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, 1992. Essays.

Co-editor, Border Lines: Contemporary Poetry in English. Toronto: Copp-Clark, 1995.
Eds. J.A. Wainwright, Clarke, Ruth Grogan, Victor Li, R. Ross, A. Wallace.

Ed. Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1997.

Guest ed., The Dalhousie Review. Africadian Special Issue. 77.2 (summer, 1997), 1999.

Eyeing the North Star: Perspectives of African-Canadian Literature. Washington, D.C.: Canadian Embassy, 1997. Monograph.

Treason of the Black Intellectuals? Seagram Lecture, 1998. Montreal: McGill Institute for the Study of Canada, 1999. Monograph.

Odysseys Home: Mapping African-Canadian Literature. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002. Essays and reviews.

Articles and Essays in Journals and Books (a selected list)

"What Was Canada?" Is Canada Postcolonial?: Unsettling Canadian Literature. Ed. Laura Moss. Waterloo, On.: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2003.

"Correspondences and Divergences Between Italian-Canadian and African-Canadian Writers." Canadian Multicultural Dreams, Realities, Expectations. Eds. Matthew Zachariah, Allan Sheppard, Leona Barratt. Edmonton: Canadian Multicultural Education Foundation, 2004.

"Raising Raced and Erased Executions in African-Canadian Literature: Or, Unearthing Angélique." Essays on Canadian Writing. 75 (2002).

"Canadian Biraciality and Its 'Zebra' Poetics." Intertexts. 6.3 (2002).

"Harris, Philip, Brand: Three Authors in Search of Literary Criticism." Journal of Canadian Studies 35.1 (Spring, 2000): 161-189.

"Racing Shelley, or Reading The Cenci as a Gothic Slave Narrative." European Romantic Review. 11.2 (Spring, 2000): 168-185.

"Reading Ward's 'Blind Man's Blues'." Arc. 44 (summer, 2000): 50-52.

"Liberalism and Its Discontents: Reading Black and White in Contemporary Québécois Texts." in Literary Pluralities, ed. Christl Verduyn. Toronto: Broadview Press, 1998.

"Cool Politics: Styles of Honour in Malcolm X and Miles Davis." Jouvert: A Journal of Post-Colonial Studies. 2.1 (1998): see Vol. 2,1 in http://social.chass.ncsu.edu/jouvert

"Contesting a Model Blackness: A Meditation on African-Canadian African Americanism, or The Structure of African-Canadianité." Essays on Canadian Writing. 63 (Spring, 1998): 1-55.

"Towards a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry." in Cultural Identities in Canadian Literature/ Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne. ed. Bénédicte Mauguière. New York: Peter Lang, 1998. 49-63.

"Must We Burn Haliburton?" in The Haliburton Bi-centenary Chaplet: Papers Presented at the 1996 Thomas Randall Symposium. ed. Richard Davis. Wolfville, N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 1997. 1-40.

"Africana Canadiana: A Primary Bibliography of Literature by African-Canadian Authors, 1785-1996, in English, French and Translation." Canadian Ethnic Studies. 28.3 (1996): 106-209.

"Must All Blackness Be American?: Locating Canada in Borden's 'Tightrope Time', or Nationalizing Gilroy's The Black Atlantic." Canadian Ethnic Studies. 28.3 (1996): 56-71.

"Clarke vs Clarke: Tory Elitism in Austin Clarke's Short Fiction." West Coast Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Criticism. 22 (Spring/Summer, 1997): 110-128.

"Birth and Rebirth of Africadian Literature." Down East: Critical Essays on Contemporary Maritime Canadian Literature. Eds. Wolfgang Hochbruck & James Taylor. Stuttgart: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1997. 55-80.

"A Primer of African-Canadian Literature." Books In Canada. 25.2 (March, 1996): 5-7. Included in the Study Guide for English 451 and English 551, at Athabasca University.

Articles About and Interviews With George Elliott Clarke

Chariandy, David. "'Canada in Us Now:' Locating the Criticism of Black Canadian Writing." Essays in Canadian Writing. 75 (Winter 2002).

Compton, Anne. "Standing Your Ground: George Elliott Clarke in Conversation." Studies in Canadian Literature. 23.2 (1998): 138-164.

Compton, Wayde. "'Even the Stars are Temporal': The Historical Motion of George Elliott Clarke's Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues." West Coast Line: A Journal of Contemporary Writing and Criticism. 22 (Spring/Summer, 1997): 156-163.

Davidson, Arnold E. "Whylah Falls: The Africadian Poetry of George Elliott Clarke." Down East: Critical Essays on Contemporary Maritime Canadian Literature. Eds. Wolfgang Hochbuck & James Taylor. Stuttgart: Wissemschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 1997.

Fiorentino, Jon Paul. "Blakening English: The Polyphonic Poetics of George Elliott Clarke." Poetics.ca #2 (2003). http://www.poetics.ca/poetics02/02fiorentino.html

Lane, M. Travis. "An Unimpoverished Style: The Poetry of George Elliott Clarke." Canadian Poetry. 16 (Spring/Summer, 1985): 47-54.
http://www.uwo.ca/english/canadianpoetry/cpjrn/vol16/lane.htm

McNeilly, K. "The Crime of Poetry: George Elliott Clarke in Conversation with Kevin McNeilly & Wayde Compton." Canadian Literature 182 (Autumn 2004).

Moynagh, Maureen. "Mapping Africadia's Imaginary Geography: An Interview with George Elliott Clarke." Ariel: A Review of International English Literature. 27.4 (October 1996): 71-94.

Thomas, H. Nigel. "Some Aspects of Blues Use in George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls." CLA Journal. 43.1 (September, 1999): 1-18.

Verduyn, Christl. "Opera In Canada: A Conversation." G. E. Clarke and Linda Hutcheon. Journal of Canadian Studies. 35.3 (Fall, 2000): 184-198.

Wells, Dorothy. "A Rose Grows in Whylah Falls: Transplanted Traditions in George Elliott Clarke's 'Africadia'." Canadian Literature. 155 (Winter, 1997): 56-73.

There are more than 200 reviews of Clarke's books including the productions of the opera, Beatrice Chancy.

Theses on the Works of George Elliott Clarke

Beneventi, Domenic A. "Spatial exclusion and the abject other in Canadian urban literature." Ph.D. Thesis, English. Université de Montréal. 2005.

Boyd, Moira Kirstin. "Straddling the 49th Parallel." M.A. Thesis. Vermont College of Norwich University. 2003.

Chariandy, David. " Whylah Falls and the Cultural Politics of George Elliott Clarke." M.A. Thesis. Carleton University. Ottawa, September 1995.

Chariandy, David John. "Land to Light on: Black Canadian literature and the language of belonging." Ph.D. Thesis. university not given. 2003.

Dagger, Lindsay. "Righting Back: Africadian History in the works of Geroge Elliott Clarke." Thesis. University of Nottingham, U.K. 2005.

Gordon, Scott. "Through An/Other Lens: Photographs in the work of three African-Canadian writers. Thesis. University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, N.B. 1999.

Hartley, M. R. "A dialogue between beauty and pain: the community of George Elliott Clarke's Whylah Falls." M.A. Thesis. McMaster University, Hamilton, 1996.

Jones, Agassou. "George Elliott Clarke: Nova Scotia 's Mythopoeic Poet." B.A. Honours Thesis, Saint Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, N.S., 1990.

Pielechaty, Colleen. E. "Witnessing the Invisiblility: The Africadian Muses of George Elliott Clarke." M.A. Thesis. Dalhousie University, Halifax, September, 1997.

Stacey, Robert David. "The transformed pastoral in recent English-Canadian Literature." M.A. Thesis, McGill University, Montreal, 1995.

Zapf, Donna Doris Anne. "Singing history, performing race: an analysis of three Canadian operas, Beatrice Chancy, Elsewhereless, and Louis Riel." Ph.D. Thesis, University of Victoria, School of Music, 2005.

Non-Fiction

Trudeau: Long March, Shining Path. Kentville N.S.: Gaspereau Press, 2007.

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