North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada's (non)place in inter-American discourse

Braz, Albert

doi:10.1177/1477570005050951

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“…As Albert Braz succinctly reminds us, "hemispheric studies have become increasingly oriented along a United States-Hispanic America axis." 16 Studies of Canadian literature, culture, and history focus on the national framework or refer primarily to the relations between Canada and Britain, and to a lesser extent to France, if a transatlantic approach is taken. Winfried Siemerling's important book Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the Past (2015) includes the African dimension and examines transatlantic relations in the context of Black Canadian literature.…”

Section: Hemispheric American Studies and Canada's Absencementioning

confidence: 99%

Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant

Raussert

2023

Transnational American Studies

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David Chariandy's acclaimed debut novel, Soucouyant, published in 2007, deals with the Caribbean migrant experience in Canada in the second half of the twentieth century and tells a story of dislocation and migration against the backdrop of entangled Caribbean, Canadian, and US histories in the Americas. 1 Soucouyant is primarily set in Scarborough Bluffs, Toronto, and unfolds a narrative about the disintegration of a Trinidadian immigrant family mostly told through the first-person voice of the family's unnamed youngest son. The protagonist of the novel is the Black mother, Adele, who came to Canada as a domestic worker and eventually married Roger, a Trinidadian immigrant and factory worker of South Asian origin. Together they raise two sons. Adele has suffered from early-onset dementia for most of her youngest son's life, which also appears to be the main reason for the gradual dissolution of the family structure. After the death of the father in a factory accident and the disappearance of the older brother, the narrator is alone in confronting his mother's mental deterioration. Unable to deal with her diminishing physical and mental condition, he leaves, only to return home to Scarborough Bluffs two years later, hoping to reconnect with his mother. His return is further inspired by his desire to discover the endings of his mother's half-told stories. Most of all, he wishes to learn the truth about a central traumatic experience from Adele's childhood that occurred during a violent encounter with US American soldiers in Trinidad during World War II. Adele's erratic behavior with running water and fire, repeatedly leading to flooding in the Canadian family home, seems directly related to this event. In her fragmented memories, the assault by US soldiers gets entangled with a visionary sighting of a soucouyant, the vampire-like female monster

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Section: Hemispheric American Studies and Canada's Absencementioning

confidence: 99%

Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant

Raussert

2023

Transnational American Studies

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Reconstructing the Border: Jim Lynch and the Return of the Canada-US Boundary

Braz

2011

Comparative American Studies

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“We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship

Aladejebi¹,

Allain²,

George³

et al. 2022

Journal of Canadian Studies

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The Toronto Raptors’ 2019 National Basketball Association (NBA) championship win, a first for the franchise and for a Canadian team, “turned hockey country into basketball nation” ( CBC Radio 2020 ). Canadians’ burgeoning embrace of the team and the sport seemed to point to a growing celebration of Blackness within the nation. However, we problematize the 2019 championship win to tell a more expansive story about how sport and national myths conceal truths about race and belonging in Canada. We explore two particular cases—the “We The North” campaign and the media coverage of Raptors superfan Nav Bhatia—to highlight the contradictory ways that the Raptors coverage mobilized symbols of the North and multiculturalism to present the team as quintessentially Canadian and rebrand basketball for Canadian audiences. We further explore how these stark contradictions manifest in the racialized policing of basketball courts in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). These cases demonstrate that the celebrations of the Raptors and basketball not only continued to police racialized bodies but also ensured that their inclusion was contingent on the maintenance of the status quo.

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North of America: Racial hybridity and Canada's (non)place in inter-American discourse

Cited by 4 publications

References 2 publications

Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant

Mental Illness as Cultural Narrative: Dementia, Im/migrant Experience and InterAmerican Entanglements in David Chariandy’s Soucouyant

Reconstructing the Border: Jim Lynch and the Return of the Canada-US Boundary

“We The North”? Race, Nation, and the Multicultural Politics of Toronto’s First NBA Championship

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