{"id":35181,"date":"2013-12-26T19:30:03","date_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35181"},"modified":"2013-12-26T19:53:34","modified_gmt":"2013-12-26T19:53:34","slug":"the-quiltings-of-human-flesh%e2%80%94constructions-of-racial-hybridity-in-contemporary-african-canadian-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35181","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Quiltings of Human Flesh&#8221;\u2014Constructions of Racial Hybridity in Contemporary African-Canadian Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/1043328947\/about\/html\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;The Quiltings of Human Flesh&#8221;\u2014Constructions of Racial Hybridity in Contemporary African-Canadian Literature<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany<br \/>\n2010-05-02<br \/>\n366 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Heike Bast<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Greifswald<\/em><\/p>\n<p>TABLE OF CONTENTS<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8216;RACE\u2019 MATTERS&#8217;: A PERSONAL NOTE ON BELONGING<\/li>\n<li>1. INTRODUCTION: &#8216;SOLE OR WHOLE&#8217; \u2013 QUILTING THE RACIALIZED SUBJECT<\/li>\n<li>2. SIGNIFYING THE IN-BETWEEN: &#8216;RACE&#8217;, &#8216;RACIAL HYBRIDITY&#8217; AND QUESTIONS OF BELONGING\n<ul>\n<li>2.1. The Language of &#8216;Race&#8217; \u2013 Notes on Terminology<\/li>\n<li>2.2. Identities in Flux: Discourses on &#8216;Race&#8217; and Subjectivity\n<ul>\n<li>2.2.1 &#8216;Race Theory&#8217; \u2013 a Brief Historical Review<\/li>\n<li>2.2.2. &#8220;Identities Without Guarantees&#8221; and the Critique of Sameness: Contemporary Race Theory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>2.3. Uncertain Crossings: Racial Hybridity and Post-Colonial Belonging<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>3. APPROACHING AFRICAN-CANADIAN BORDERLANDS\n<ul>\n<li>3.1. The African-Canadian Experience: Unearthing the History of Miscegenation in Canada<\/li>\n<li>3.2. Canadian Multiculturalism and Cultural Violence: Mixed-Race Identities and the Intricacies of Belonging<\/li>\n<li>3.3. Living and Writing the In-Between: Tracing a Black Literary Tradition in Canada<\/li>\n<li>3.4. From &#8216;Tragic Mulatto&#8217; to &#8216;Zebra Poetics&#8217;? &#8211; Racial Hybridity in African-Canadian literature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>4. EXPLORING AFRICAN-CANADIAN BORDERLANDS\n<ul>\n<li>4.1. Borderlands Poetics in the Writings of Suzette Mayr\n<ul>\n<li>4.1.1. Suzette Mayr&#8217;s <em>Zebra Talk<\/em> (1991)<\/li>\n<li>4.1.2. Metamorphoses and the Racialized Body: <a href=\"http:\/\/suzettemayr.com\/suzette\/\" target=\"_blank\">Suzette Mayr&#8217;s<\/a> <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=35183\" target=\"_blank\">Moon Honey<\/a><\/em> (1995)<\/li>\n<li>4.1.3. Canadian Hodgepodge in Suzette Mayr&#8217;s <em>The Widows<\/em> (1998)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>4.2. &#8216;Reverse Doublestuff&#8217;, or from Halfness to Wholeness: The Poetry of Mercedes Baines<\/li>\n<li>4.3. Polyvalent Blackness in African-Canadian Drama: Difference and Healing in Maxine Bailey&#8217;s and Sharon Lewis&#8217;s <em>Sistahs<\/em> (1994)<\/li>\n<li>4.4. &#8216;An Exile in the Land of My Birth&#8217;: Racial Mixture and National Belonging in the Autobiographical Writings of Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar<\/li>\n<li>4.5. Anti-Mulatto Rhetoric in Haitian and Haitian-Canadian History, Literature, and Culture\n<ul>\n<li>4.5.1. Unmasking the Carnival: Max Dorsinville&#8217;s <em>Erzulie Loves Shango<\/em> (1998)<\/li>\n<li>4.5.2. Torment, Memory and Desire: G\u00e9rard \u00c9tienne&#8217;s <em>La Pacotille<\/em> (1991)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>4.6. &#8216;In Pursuit of Wholeness&#8217;: &#8216;Race&#8217;, Class and Black Masculinity in Kim Barry <em>Brunhuber&#8217;s Kameleon Man<\/em> (2003)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>5. &#8216;FROM SOLE TO WHOLE&#8217; \u2013 AFRICAN-CANADIAN MIXED-RACE POETICS<\/li>\n<li>6. BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/li>\n<li>APPENDIX I: BIO-BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES ON AUTHORS<\/li>\n<li>APPENDIX II: INTERVIEW WITH SUZETTE MAYR (JULY 25TH, 2009)<\/li>\n<li>Danksagung<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read the entire dissertation <a href=\"http:\/\/d-nb.info\/1043328947\/34\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The Quiltings of Human Flesh&#8221;\u2014Constructions of Racial Hybridity in Contemporary African-Canadian Literature University of Greifswald, Greifswald, Germany 2010-05-02 366 pages Heike Bast Dissertation to obtain the academic degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Division of the Humanities, University of Greifswald TABLE OF CONTENTS &#8216;RACE\u2019 MATTERS&#8217;: A PERSONAL NOTE ON BELONGING 1. 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