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Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work - On Black-Canadian Literature, Hip Hop aesthetics and avantgardistic black poetry
Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2, University of Vienna, language: English, abstract: The following paper is concerned with the artist Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work. In the beginning, Compton ́s life as well as some insights into the historical and socio-cultural background that characterize the author ́s life and his works will be described. A discussion on Compton ́s view on topics such as Black Englishes, Hip Hop oralities and Turntable Pluralities follows, after which the paper will provide some information on the poetry collection Performance Bond as well as other works by Wayde Compton. After an explanation concering the field of „Hip Hop aesthetics“ as well as a discussion of Compton ́s poem „Declaration of the Halfrican Nation“, the paper concludes with a presentation of „mixed-race“ or „hyphenated“ writers and their work aside from Wayde Compton.
Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian Background of His Work
Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 3,0, University of Vienna (Anglistik), course: Popular Literature in Canada, language: English, abstract: The following paper is concerned with the artist Wayde Compton and the African-Canadian background of his work. In the beginning, Compton ́s life as well as some insights into the historical and socio-cultural background that characterize the author ́s life and his works will be described. A discussion on Compton ́s view on topics such as Black Englishes, Hip Hop oralities and Turntable Pluralities follows, after which the paper will provide some information on the poetry collection Performance Bond as well as other works by Wayde Compton. After an explanation concering the field of "Hip Hop aesthetics" as well as a discussion of Compton ́s poem "Declaration of the Halfrican Nation", the paper concludes with a presentation of "mixed-race" or "hyphenated" writers and their work aside from Wayde Compton.
49th Parallel Psalm
Wayde Compton's first poetry book: a stunning set of poems documenting the migration of Blacks to Canada, specifically when the first Black settlers-facing an increasingly hostile racist government-left San Francisco and travelled north to British Columbia beginning in 1858. With recurring themes of the unknowable, the crossroads, the trickster, and entropy, 49th Parallel Psalm jumbles history, time, and the Canadian black literary canon. Shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize
The Outer Harbour
A series of inter-connected stories focusing on Vancouver, its past and its future, explores how place helps shape identity.
After Canaan
The ever-more-complex culture of race in the 21st century, according to essayist and poet Wayde Compton.
Performance Bond
A new collection of hip-hop-inspired poetry that fuses history and contemporary black politics; includes a CD of a turntable performance.
Bluesprint
"Bluesprint" is a groundbreaking, first-time collection of the creative output of British Columbia's black citizens, and includes an astonishing range of styles: journal entries, oral histories, letters, journalism, poems, stories, screenplays, and hip-hop lyrics.
The Blue Road
A beautiful YA graphic novel about the experience of migration: a young girl looking for a place to belong.
Side/Lines
This anthology offers refereshing, cogent and insightful explanations of why young poets and writers do what they do. The thirty pieces in side/lines OCo by a unique variety of Canadian writers working in numerous genres OCo reflect on why writers write. Their reflections are not to be held as gospel or lifelong theories, but can be considered writing strategies drawn up at specific points in time, informed by certain unavoidable material conditions, such as current politics and emotions. Ask these writers to explain their craft in ten years, and you may be surprised by their answers."
The Black Atlantic Reconsidered
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. The Black Atlantic Reconsidered is the first comprehensive work to explore black Canadian literature from its beginnings to the present in the broader context of the black Atlantic world. Winfried Siemerling traces the evolution of black Canadian witnessing and writing from slave testimony in New France and the 1783 "Book of Negroes" through the work of contemporary black Canadian writers including G...
