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'Membering Austin Clarke

Edited by Paul Barrett
Categories: Literature: history and criticism, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, Canada, North America (USA and Canada), The Americas, Place qualifiers
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Paperback : 9781771124775, 236 pages, November 2020
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Table of contents

Acknowledgements
1. The Trouble of Intimacy / Rinaldo Walcott
2. On Austin Clarke’s Style / Paul Barrett
3. Dear Austin: Why Teaching Your Work Is Difficult / Leslie Sanders
4. “There Were No Elders. Only Old Men”: Aging and Misogyny in Austin Clarke’s Later Fiction / Camille Isaacs
5. That Man, That Man—Stories and Confabulations / Austin Clarke
6. Burrowing Into the Craft: Editing Austin Clarke / Dennis Lee
7. Editorial Notes for “When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks” / Dennis Lee
8. Sometimes, A Motherless Child: A Double Take / Giovanna Riccio
9. “These Virtues o’ the Cullinerry Harts”: Talking Food and Politics in the Letters of Austin Clarke, Sam Selvon, and Andrew Salkey / Kris Singh
10. Let Me Stand Up / Austin Clarke
11. Austin A.C. Clarke Is the Most / Kate Siklosi
12. The Rogue in Me / Austin Clarke
13. Spatiality in the Poetry of Austin A.C. Clarke / Stephen Cain
14. The Lessons of Austin Clarke / Sonnet L’Abbé
15. “The Wordshop of the Kitchen”: Impressions of Austin Clarke and Paule Marshall / Asha Varadharajan
16. Of Kin and Kind / Marquita Smith
17. The Robber / Austin Clarke
18. Austin Clarke: Defying the Silence, a Life in Letters / John Harewood
19. Austin Clarke Love Poem / Cyril Dabydeen
20. Do Not Let Them Choose the Fragrance / Austin Clarke
21. There Will Never Be Another Austin Clarke / Patrick Crean
22. Still the British Empire / André Forget
23. I Can Say I Read It / E. Martin Nolan
24. Austin Clarke’s Books / Katherine McKittrick
25. Hyphen (for Austin “Tom” Clarke, 1934–2016) / John R. Lee
26. “Myth Grounded in Truth”: Sound, Light, and the Vertical Imagination in Austin Clarke’s ’Membering
/ Winfried Siemerling
27. À St. Matthias / George Elliott Clarke
28. Clarke on Clarke / George Elliott Clarke & Paul Barrett
29. All He Wanted to Do Was Type / Michael A. Bucknor
30. Recognition / David Chariandy
Works Cited
Index

Description

’Membering Austin Clarke reflects on the life and writing of Austin Clarke, whose depictions of Black life in Canada enlarged our understanding of what Canadian literature looks like. Despite being one of Canada’s most widely published, and most richly awarded writers, Austin Clarke (1934–2016) is not a household name. This collection addresses Clarke’s marginalization in Canadian literature by demonstrating that his writing on Black diasporic life and the immigrant experience is a foundational, if untold, part of the story of CanLit.

Reviews

’Membering Austin Clarke is a wonderful collection – a both discerning and poignant tribute to one of Canada’s great writers, which will be a landmark work in Austin Clarke criticism for years to come. Paul Barrett has assembled some of the leading names in Black Canadian criticism, along with several friends and fellow travellers of Clarke, resulting in the production of a manuscript that will be widely read beyond an academic audience.

- Aaron Kamugisha