Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation

Home » Addressing Anti-Black Racism » Recommended Readings & Films » Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women's Cultural Critiques of Nation

��Horizon, Sea, Sound: Caribbean and African Women’s Cultural Critiques of Nation, Andrea Davis imagines new reciprocal relationships beyond the competitive forms of belonging suggested by the nation-state. The book employs the tropes of horizon, sea, and sound as a critique of nation-state discourses and formations, including multicultural citizenship, racial capitalism, settler colonialism, and the hierarchical nuclear family.
��

About the Author

Andrea A. Davis is an associate professor in Black cultures of the Americas in the Department of Humanities at 91��ɫ and co-editor of the Journal of Canadian Studies.

Other publications from this author include:

"Celebrating Austin Clarke: The Man and the Body of His Work" in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 42 (2021)
"Which Scandalous Bodies? Black Women Writers Refuse Nation Narratives" in Canadian Literature: A Quarterly of Criticism and Review, 243, 146-152 (2020)
"Un/Belonging in Diasporic Cities: A Literary History of Caribbean Women in London and Toronto" in Caribbean Review of Gender Studies, 13, 17-50 (2019)
"The Black Woman Native Speaking Subject: Reflections of a Black Female Professor in Canada" in Atlantis: Critical Studies in Gender, Culture, and Social Justice, 39 (1), 70-78 (2018)
"'The Real Toronto': Black Youth Experiences and the Narration of the Multicultural City" in Journal of Canadian Studies, 51 (3), 725-748 (2017)
James, Carl E. and Andrea Davis, "Instructive Episodes: The Shifting Positions of the Jamaican Diaspora in Canada" in Journal of Education and Development in the Caribbean, 14 (1), 17-41 (2012)
Jamaica in the Canadian Experience: A Multiculturalizing Presence (2012)
"Black Canadian Literature as Diaspora Transgression: The Second Life of Samuel Tyne" in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 17, 31-49 (2007)
"Diaspora, Citizenship and Gender: Challenging the Myth of the Nation in African Canadian Women's Literature" in Canadian Woman Studies, 23 (2), 64-69 (2004)