Abstract:
With his poems in the book Performance Bond (2004), African Canadian poet and theorist Wayde Compton has remapped the contexts of immigration, history and multiculturalism in British Columbia. This paper will look specifically at how Compton uses the intertexts of history, literary theory and popular culture to challenge official histories and the exclusion of Canada from global black culture.
This article “Mis-mappings and Mis-duplications: Interdiscursivity and the Poetry of Wayde Compton” originally appeared in Canadian Literature 214 (Autumn 2012): 47-66.
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