The Black Atlantic Reconsidered: Black Canadian Writing, Cultural History, and the Presence of the PastWinner of the Gabrielle Roy Prize, Association for Canadian and Quebec Literatures (2015). 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