Figuresxi Acknowledgmentsxiii Introduction3 WINFRIED SIEMERLING AND KARINA VERNON Part One Artists on Audience 1 All That Grooving45 LILLIAN ALLEN 2 Writing Is a Social Act48 WAYDE COMPTON 3 Receiver?51 KAIE KELLOUGH 4 Wolves and Jellyfish: Inside Flipping Outside Flipping Inside56 SUZETTE MAYR 5 Notes on Audience60 SYLVIA D. HAMILTON 6 World Making, Truth Telling, and the Work of a Poet65 JULIANE OKOT BITEK Part Two Writing and Theatre 7 Who's Listening? Artists, Audiences & Language71 M. NOURBESE PHILIP 8 M. NourbeSe Philip's Antiphonal Poetics88 KYLE KINASCHUK 9 Teachable Moments: Invitations to Thinking and Community in Cheryl Foggo's Pourin' Down Rain and David Chariandy's Brother112 LAUREANNE WILLEMS 10 "Radically Reconfigured Spaces and Relations": Reading "Radical Intimacy" in David Chariandy's Brother133 VALERIE UHER 11 "Volumes of Ambivalence": An Exploration of Market Aesthetics and Canada's Literary Mainstream in David Chariandy's Brother154 JP MONGEAU 12 The Tragedy of Black Citizenship? Reading George Elliott Clarke's Execution Poems and George & Rue177 KATJA SARKOWSKY 13 Canadian Theatre Made for Black Women197 NAILA KELETA-MAE 14 "Evidence we were here": Reflections on Black Canadian Theatre and Audience217 DJANET SEARS AND SIGNY LYNCH Part Three Visual and Sonic Art 15 The Street Poetics of #BlackLivesMatter-Toronto231 TAVLEEN PUREWAL 16 Contrast and Share: Reading Black Lives in Black Photojournalism in 1970s "Multicultural" Toronto254 CHERYL THOMPSON 17 Imaging Otherwise: Ella Cooper's Photo-Video Art278 HANNAH GARDINER 18 From Site/Sight to Sound and Film: Critical Black Canadian Memory Culture and Sylvia D. Hamilton's The Little Black School House290 WINFRIED SIEMERLING 19 Turntable Poetry, Mixed-Race, and Schizophonophilia306 WAYDE COMPTON 20 Rhythms Riddims of Relation319 MARK V. CAMPBELL Part Four Teaching Black Canadian Works of Art 21 Reading and Listening to Black Canadian Literature: My Route337 LESLIE SANDERS 22 Introduction to the Syllabus: Black Literatures and Cultures in Canada348 DARCY BALLANTYNE 23 "This Part of the Country": Teaching Archives of Black Prairie Freedom and Futures360 CORNEL BOGLE, COURTENAY CHAN, MIRIAM MABROUK, JUMOKE VERISSIMO, AND TERESA ZACKODNIK 24 Reading and Listening Intently to David Chariandy's Brother on the Prairie Campus375 JOANNE LEOW 25 Canadian Literature Through and Beyond the Black Atlantic390 JENNIFER BLAIR 26 Hemispheric Approaches to Black Canadian Literatures408 MAANDEEQ MOHAMED 27 The Outside of the Inside: Blackness and the Remaking of Canadian Institutional Life414 KARINA VERNON 28 Teaching (Black) Canadian Literature in the Netherlands424 HANS BAK, JOCHEM RIESTHUIS, AND JEANETTE DEN TOONDER Coda433 KARINA VERNON AND WINFRIED SIEMERLING References441 Contributors471 Index479.