Title: Why we write : conversations with African Canadian poets and novelists : interviews /
Authors: Thomas, H. Nigel, 1947-
Publisher: TSAR Publications,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Canadian literature Black authors Interviews.; Canadian literature History and criticism Theory, etc.; Authors and publishers Canada History; Book industries and trade Canada.; Littérature canadienne-anglaise Auteurs noirs Histoire et critique.; Écrivains canadiens-anglais Entretiens.
Abstract: "In this volume of interviews with H. Nigel Thomas, fifteen leading African Canadian writers discuss the complexities of the writing experience and reveal their thoughts on their creative process. Identifying how their social and geographical origins have influenced their work, these poets and fiction writers also respond to the exigencies of craft, the manipulations of publishers, the criticism of readers, and the absence of a clearly identifiable market for their works. This book, therefore, provides valuable insights both on individual creativity and on the politics of cultural production in a multicultural society."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Ayanna Black -- Austin Clarke -- George Elliot Clarke -- Wayde Compton -- Afua Cooper -- Bernadette Dyer -- Cecil Foster -- Claire Harris -- Lawrence Hill -- Nalo Hopkinson -- Suzette Mayr -- Pamela Mordecai -- M NourbeSe Philip -- Althea Prince -- Robert Sandiford.