Literature

About Literature/Authors:

• Algoo-Baksh, Stella. Austin C. Clarke: A Biography. 1994.
• Lecker, Robert; Jack David and Ellen Quigley, Editors. (Introduction by George Woodcock) Canadian Writers & Their Works Vol. XI: Neil Bissoondath, Austin Clarke, Joy Kogawa, Rohinton Mistry & Josef Skvorecky
• Elliott, Lorris. Editor. The Bibliography of Literary Writings by Blacks in Canada. Toronto: Williams-Wallace Publishers, 1986.
• Elliott, Lorris. (Edited by Michael S. Batts) Literary Writing by Blacks in Canada: A Preliminary Survey. Ottawa: Department of the secretary of State of Canada, 1988. (40 p.)
• Walcott, Rinaldo. Black Like Who?, 1997 (about Black culture in Canada, generally)

Children's Literature

• Cooper, John. Season Of Rage: Hugh Burnett And The Struggle For Civil Rights. Toronto : Tundra Books, 2005. (children’s book re Dresden )

• Keens-Douglas, Richardo

  • Freedom Child of the Sea, 1995
• Grandpa's Visit, 1996
• La Diablesse and the Baby: A Caribbean Folktale, 1994
• Mama God, Papa God: A Caribbean Tale, 1999
• The Nutmeg Princess, 1992
• Kositsky, Lynne: (a series about Black Loyalist settlers, featuring "Rachel", a young girl)
  • A Mighty Big Imagining
  • Certificate of Freedom
  • An Elephant Tree Christmas
  • The Maybe House. Toronto: Penguin, 2002. 83 p.
• Marin, Reva. Oscar: the Life and Music of Oscar Peterson. (for ages 11+) Toronto: Groundwood Books, 2003.
• Miller, Michael:
• Perkyns, Dorothy. Last Days in Africville. Beach Holme Pub, 2003
• Philip, M. Nourbese. Harriet's Daughter, 1989
• Prince, Bryan. I Came as a Stranger : the Underground Railroad. Tundra, 2004.
• Rinngold, Faith. Aunt Harriet's Underground Railroad in the Sky.
• Roy, Lynette. Brown Girl In The Ring: Rosemary Brown, A Biography For Young People. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1992.
• Roy, Lynette. Three Caribbean Women in Canadian Politics: a Biography for Young People. 2002
• Sadlier, Rosemary. The Kids Book of Black Canadian History. Kids Can Press, 2003.

   

Works of Literature:

Literary Anthologies

• Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour.  (Edited by Y. Nolan, B. Quan, G. Seremba: 234 p.) 1996.
• Canada in Us Now: the First Anthology of Black Poetry and Prose in Canada
• Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed-Race Women, 1994 (Carol Camper, editor)
• Nine Black Women: Anthology of Nineteenth Century Writers from the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the Caribbean, 1997 (Moira Ferguson, editor)
• Other Voices: Writings by Blacks in Canada
• T Dot Griots: an Anthology of Toronto's Black Storytellers. (Edited by Steven Green and Karen Richardson).Victoria , B.C.: Trafford, 2004. 181 p
• Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Vol. 1 (anthology edited by Djanet Sears), 2000
• Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Vol. 2 (anthology edited by Djanet Sears), 2004

Works by Authors:

• Alexis, Andre: (1957-)
• Childhood: A Novel, 1998
• Despair, and Other Stories of Ottawa, 1994
• Lambton and Kent, (play) 1995

• Allen, Lillian.
  • Psychic Unrest. (poetry)
    
• Anthony, Trey:
  • Da Kink in My Hair (play)
    
• Louise Bennett ("Miss Lou")
• Aunty Roachy Seh
• Jamaica Labrish

• Neil Bissoondath: (1955-)
• A Casual Brutality, (novel) 1988
• Digging up the Mountains, (short stories) 1986
• Doing the Heart Good, (novel), 2002
• The Worlds Within Her, (novel) Knopf Canada, 417 pages, 1998
  
• Black, Ayanna:
• editor: Daughters of the Sun, Women of the Moon: An Anthology of Canadian Black Women Poets
• editor: Fiery Spirits: A Collection of Short Fiction and Poetry by Canadian Writers of African Descent
• No Contingencies
• editor: Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent. Toronto: HarperCollins, 1992.
  
• Boyd, George
• Consecrated Ground (about Africville)
• Two by George (includes Gideon's Blues)
• Shine Boy (about boxer George Dixon)

• Braithwaite, Diana:
• Martha and Elvira: A One-Act Play, 1993
  
• Brand, Dionne. (1953-)
• Fiction
• At The Full And Change Of The Moon: A Novel, Toronto: Knopf Canada.1999.
• In Another Place, Not Here, (novel) Toronto: A.A. Knopf Canada. 1996
• Sans Souci (short stories), Stratford, Ont.: Williams-Wallace.1989.
• Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction. Toronto: Vintage. 1999.
• What We Long For. Toronto: , 2005.
  
• Essays
• Bread out of Stone, (essays) 1st ed. Toronto: Coach House Press. 1994. & Toronto: Knopf Canada. 1998. [reissued]
• A conceptual analysis of how gender roles are racially constructed: Black women. Thesis (M.A.)--University of Toronto, 1988.
• No burden to carry: narratives of black working women in Ontario, 1920s-1950s. Toronto: Women's Press. 1991.
• Rivers Have Sources, Trees Have Roots: Speaking of Racism: (written with Krisantha Sri Bhaggiyadatta), Toronto: Cross Cultural Communication Centre, 1986
• Sight Specific: Lesbians and Representation, 1988
• "We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up": Essays of Canadian Women's History, 1994
  
• Poetry
• Chronicles of the Hostile Sun, (poetry) Toronto: Williams-Wallace. 1984.
• Earth magic. Toronto: Kids Can Press. 1979.
• 'Fore day morning: poems. Toronto: Khoisan Artists. 1978.
• Grammar and Dissent: Poetry and Prose of Claire Harris, M. Nourbese Philip and Dionne Brand,  Fredericton, N.B.: Goose Land. 1994..
• Land to Light On. (poetry) Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1997
• No Language is Neutral, 1990
• Primitive offensive. Toronto: Williams-Wallace International Inc. 1982
• Winter Epigrams and Epigrams to Ernesto Cardenal in Defence of Claudia, (poetry) Toronto: Williams-Wallace International.  1983 256 p. ISBN: 0864921411
  
  • Videorecordings
•  Listening for something [videorecording]: Adrienne Rich and Dionne Brand in conversation. 1996. Montreal: National Film Board of Canada, Studio D., 1996. 1 videocassette (56 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. (VHS) Closed captioned for the hearing impaired. [annotation]
• Long time comin' [videorecording]. Montrèal: National Film Board of Canada, Studio D. 1991. 1 videocassette (52 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. (VHS)      Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Third part of Women at the Well trilogy which also includes: Older, stronger, wiser ; and, Sisters in the struggle. PERFORMERS: With Faith Nolan and Grace Channer.
• Older, stronger, wiser [videorecording]. [Montrèal]: National Film Board. 1989. 1 videocassette (28 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. (VHS). CREDITS: Directed by Claire Prieto; associate director, Dionne Brand; written by Dionne Brand; producer, Ginny Stikeman. A Studio D production.
• Sisters in the struggle [videorecording] / directors, Dionne Brand, Ginny Stikeman ; producer, Ginny PUBLISHED: Montrèal : National Film Board of Canada, Studio D, 1991. PAGING: 1 videocassette (49 min.)
  
• Codrington, Lisa:
  • Cast Iron (Play) 2005 published by Playwrights Canada Press and in Canadian Theatre Review and Beyond the Pale: Dramatic Writing from First Nations Writers and Writers of Colour

• Clarke, Austin: (1934-)
• Fiction
• Amongst Thistles and Thorns, 1965
• The Austin Clarke Reader (selected writings) 199
• The Bigger Light. (Novel). Toronto: Vintage Press, 1998
• In This City, 19
• The Prime Minister, 1977
• The Meeting Point. (Novel). Toronto: Vintage Press, 1998 (1967)
• Nine Men Who Laughed. 19
• The Origin of Waves, 1997
• The Polished Hoe, 2002 (Winner of The Giller Prize for fiction for 2002)
• Proud Empires
• The Question, 1999
• Storm of Fortune. (Novel). Toronto: Vintage Press, 1998 (1971)
• The Survivors of the Crossing, 19
• There are no Elders, 19
• When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks, 1971
• When Women Rule, 1985
  
• Non-Fiction
• A Passage Back Home (about Sam Selvon)
• Growing Up Stupid Under the Union Jack. (memoirs) 1980
• Pigtails n' Breadfruit: Rituals of Slave Food, 1999
• Public Enemies: Police Violence and Black Youth, 1992
  
• Clarke, George Elliott:
• Beatrice Chancy, 1999
• Editor. Eyeing the North Star: Directions in African-Canadian Literature. (Anthology) Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1997.
• Clarke, George Elliott.George & Rue. Toronto: HarperCollins Pub., 2005. 223 p
• Lush Dreams, Blue Exile: Fugitive Poems, 1978-1993, 1994
• Quebecite.
• Saltwater Spirituals and Deeper Blues
• Whylah Falls, 1990
• Whylah Falls: A Play, 1999
  
• Cooper, Afua:
• Copper Woman: And Other Poems. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2006.
• Memories Have Tongue. (Poetry). Toronto: Sister Vision Press, 1992.
• The Underground Railroad: Next Stop, Toronto! Toronto: Natural Heritage, 2002. (co-authored with Adrienne Shadd and Karolyn Smardz Frost)

• Crail, Archibald J.:
• Birdsong (script for the NFB)
• The Bonus Deal, 1992
• Exile (play)
  
• Dabydeen, Cyril: (1945)
• Dark Swirl, (novel) 1989
• Islands Lovelier Than a Vision, (poetry) 1986
• To Monkey Jungle, (poetry) 1989
• Still Close to the Island (short stories) 1980
  
• Dorsinville, Max.
• Erzulie Loves Shango, (novel) 1998.
  
• Edugyanso, Esi
  • The Second Life of Samuel Tyne : a Novel. Knopf, 2004.

• Espinet, Ramabai:
• Editor: Creation Fire (anthology of Caribbean women's poetry)
• Indian Robber Talk (poetry/performance)
• The Swinging Bridge (novel) HarperCollins Canada, 2003.
• published in anthologies including: Her Mother's Ashes, Aurat Durbar, Green Cane, Juicy Flotsam
  
• Etienne, Gerard:
• La Pacotille: roman, 1991
• La Raison et mon Amour, 1961
  
• Fisseha, Rebessca:
  • February (raw materials 2)
  • The Exhibition of Love (r.p.s IV),
  • Leaving Home, presented at rock.paper.sistahz 5.
  • Wise Woman
• Foster, Cecil:
• Island Wings (memoirs), 1998
• No Man in the House
• A Place Called Heaven (essays)
• Slammin Tar, 1998
• Sleep On, Beloved
  
• Gool, Reshard:
• Cape Town Coolie, 1989
• Nemesis Casket
  
• Hamilton, Sylvia:
Contributor to and co-editor of We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History. U of  T Press, 1993.
Articles in Redefining Motherhood, Second Story Press, Toronto; Tam Tam to Internet: Telecoms in Africa, Mafube Publishing and Marketing, Johannesburg, South Africa; Motherhood Redefined: Changing Identities and Patterns; We're Rooted Here and They Can't Pull Us Up: Essays in African Canadian Women's History; And Still We Rise; The Daily News; Horizon Canada; Fireweed: Canadian Women Studies/ les cahiers de la femme; Fiery Spirits; Canadian Writers of Africa Descent; Fire on the Water: An Anthology of Black Nova Scotian Writing;  Daughters of the Sun Women of the Moon and
• Other Voices: Writing by Blacks in Canada.
  
• Harris, Claire:
• Dipped in Shadow, 1996
• Drawing Down a Daughter, 1993
• Fables From the Women's Quarters, 1984
• Grammar and Dissent: Poetry and Prose of Claire Harris, M. Nourbese Philip and Dionne Brand, 1995.
• Travelling to Find a Remedy, 1986
  
• Hill, Lawrence:
• Any Known Blood, 1996
• Some Great Thing, 1992
• Trial and Triumphs: The Story of African-Canadians
• Women of Vision: The Story of the Canadian Negro Women's Association
  
• Hossein, Clyde: (1940)
• The Killing of Nelson John, 1980
  
• Hunter, Yema Lucilda.
  • Road to Freedom. Ibadan, 1982.  (novel about Black Loyalist heroine in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone)
    
• Keens-Douglas, Richardo
• Freedom Child of the Sea, 1995
• Grandpa's Visit, 1996
• La Diablesse and the Baby: A Caribbean Folktale, 1994
• Mama God, Papa God: A Caribbean Tale, 1999
• The Nutmeg Princess, 1992
  
• Ladoo, Harold Sonny
• No Pain Like This Body
• Yesterdays
  
• Laferriere, Dany:
• A Drifting Year
• An Aroma of Coffee, 1993
• Dining With the Dictator, 1994
• Eroshima
• How to Make Love to a Negro
• Why Must a Black Writer Write About Sex?
  
• Lansens, Lori:
  • Rush Home Road: a novel . Toronto: Alfred A. Knopf Canada , 2002.
    
• Mayr, Suzette:
• Moon Honey, 1995
• Zebra Talk
  
• Mezlekia, Nega:
• The God Who Begat a Jackal: A Novel. Toronto: Penguin Books, 2001
• Notes From the Hyena's Belly: Memories of My Ethiopian Boyhood. Toronto: Penguin Books, 2000.

• Miller, Michael:
• El Paso, 2002 (play, unpublished)
• In the Freedom of Dreams: The Story of Nelson Mandela
• Touch the Sky , (staged at Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People in February 2008)
  
• Moodie, Andrew:
  • A Common Man's Guide to Loving Women
  • Afghanada (In 2006 Moodie was a member of the creative team that developed this CBC radio drama.)
  • Oui
  • The Real McCoy
  • Riot (play) 1995
  • Toronto the Good (play) 2009
    
• Mordecai, Pamela:
• Daughters of the Red Land, 1996
• de Man: a Performance Poem, 1995
• Her True-True Name, 1990
• Jamaica Woman
• Journey Poem

• Odhiambo, David N.:
• afrocentric (play)
• diss/ed banded nation (novel)
  
• Philip, M. Nourbese:
• Grammar and Dissent: Poetry and Prose of Claire Harris, M. Nourbese Philip and Dionne Brand, 1995.
• Harriet's Daughter, 1989
• She Tries her Tongue, The Silence Softly Breaks, 1989
  
• Prince, Althea:
• Being Black (Essays), 2000
• How the East Pond Got Its Flowers, 1991
• How the Star Fish Got to the Sea, 1992
• Ladies of the Night and Other Stories, 1993
  
• Sadu, Itah
• Christopher Changes His Name, 1998
  
• Sarsfield, Mairuth:
• No Crystal Stair, 1997

• Sears, Djanet:

  Works by the Author

  • The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God, 2000
  • Afrika Solo, 1990
  • Double Trouble
  • Harlem Duet, 1998
  • Naming Names: Black Women Playwrights in Canada
  • Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Drama, Vol. 1 (anthology edited by Sears), 2000
  • Who Killed Katie Ross (in Taking the Stage: Plays by Canadian Women), 1994
  • Women on the Canadian Stage: The Legacy of Hrotsvit, Rita Much, editor, 1991

  Other Works by Djanet Sears :

  • Testifyin': Contemporary African Canadian Playwrights, Vol. I & II , Editor. 2003. Can I Get a Witness?, Vol. I. 2000.
  • Notes of a Colored Girl .1997.
  • Naming Names (part of anthology, Women On The Canadian Stage: The Legacy of Hrotsvit ). 1991.

Productions directed by Djanet Sears :

• The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God , Mirvish Productions, Toronto, Canada. 2003/2004.
• Harlem Duet , Blue Heron Theatre, New York, NY. 2002.
• Braithwaite, Diana. The Wonder of Man , Nightwood Theatre, Toronto, Canada. 1992.
• Mandiela, Ahdri Zhina. Dark Diaspora… in Dub , Toronto Fringe Festival, Toronto, Canada. 1990.
• Mojica, Monique. Princess Pocahontas and the Blue Spots , Groundswell, May Works and From the Ground Up, Toronto, Canada. 1989.
• Marcus, Afua. Ella and Jennifer , Groundswell, Toronto, Canada. 1989.
• Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire , Canadian Actor's Equity Association, Talent over Tradition, Toronto, Canada. 1989.
• Giroux, Monique. Copper Tin Can , Groundswell, Toronto, Canada. 1988.
• Shakes , Cabaret Productions, York University, Toronto, Canada. 1982.

Discography :

• “Daysongs and Nightsongs,” Teds Records, Toronto, Canada, 1993.
• “Winterlong,” Teds Records, Toronto, Canada, 1991.
• “Playsongs and Lullabies,” Teds Records, Toronto, Canada, 1989.
• “Conditions Critical,” Verse to Vinyl Records, Toronto, Canada, 1989.

Works about the Author

• Branker, Saada. Montreal Community Contact . 13:2. Jan (2003): 5.
• Bruckner, D. J. R.. “A Tortured Duet With History.” New York Times . 21 Nov. 2002: E4.
• Breon, Robin. “Interview with Djanet Sears: A Black Girl in Search of God,” AISLE SAY Toronto. http://www.aislesay.com/ONT-SEARS.html
• Coulbourn, John. “Promise Unfolds,” Toronto Sun . Feb 12, 2002. http://www.canoe.ca/TheatreReviewsA/adventuresofablackgirl-sun.html
• Diana Adsola Mafe. Research in African Literatures . 35:3 (Fall 2004): 46-62.
• Dickenson, Peter. “Duets, Duologues, and Black Diasporic Theatre: Djanet Sears, William Shakespeare, and Others.” Modern Drama , 45:2 (Summer 2002): 188-208. http://www.canadianshakespeares.ca/multimedia/pdf/duets.pdf (pdf link)
• Greenberg, Joel. “The Adventures of a Black Girl in Search of God,” *AISLE SAY *Toronto. http://www.aislesay.com/ONT-ADVENTURES.html
• Lingerfelt, Jim, and Roger Kershaw. “Harlem's Two Solitudes: A Stage Door Review.” 1997. http://www.stage-door.org/reviews/harlem.htm
• Murray, Matthew. “Harlem Duet: Theatre Review,” Off Broadway . 11/17/02.
• Winsor, Christopher. “Doin' the Harlem Shuffle,” Eye Weekly . 11/13/97. http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_11.13.97/theatre/onstage13.html

Works in Languages other than English

• Cada 9 segundos : Video recording: Animation: VHS tape 1 videocassette (VHS) (86 min.)

Related Links

• An Encyclopedia of Canadian Theatre, http://www.canadiantheatre.com/
  The University of Toronto Homepage, where Sears currently resides as an adjunct professor, http://www.utoronto.ca/
• The Obsidian Theatre, co-founded by Sears, http://www.obsidian-theatre.com
• A short biography on Sears, http://www.collectionscanada.ca/3/8/t8-6014-e.html

• Selvon, Sam:
• Housing Lark: A Novel, 1990
• The Lonely Londoners
• Moses Ascending
• Moses Migrating, 1992
• Ways of Sunlight, 1987

• Senior, Olive: (1941)
• Arrival of the Snake-Woman  (short stories)
• Discerner of Hearts, (short stories) 1995
• Gardening in the Tropics: Poems, 1994
• Summer Lightening (novel) 19987
• Talking of Trees (poetry)

• Silvera, Makeda: (1955-)
• The Heart Does Not Bend: A Novel. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2002.
• Her Head a Village and Other Stories, 1994
• Remembering G and Other Stories, 1991
• Silenced: Talks with Working Class West Indian Women About their Lives and Struggles as Domestic Workers in Canada, 1983

• Thomas, H. Nigel:
• From Folklore to Fiction: A Study of Folk Heroes and Rituals in the Black American Novel
• How Loud can the Village Cock Crow? (short stories)
• Spirits in the Dark, (novel) 1993
  
• Maxine Tynes
• The Door of My Heart
  
• Walls, Bryan E.:
  • The Road that Led to Somewhere: A Documentd Novel. Windsor: Olive, 1980.
    
• Ward, Frederick:
• The Curing Berry, 1983
• Riverlisp: Black Memories, 1974
  
• Young.Anatafrika, d'bi:
  • Blood Claat: one womban story. 2005.
    
• Zeleza, Paul Tiyambe:
• The Joys of Exile: Stories by Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, 1984