George Elliott Clarke
Biographic Data
| ID | 3612701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | George Elliott Clarke |
| GIVEN NAMES | George Elliott |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarke |
| SIGNATURE | CLARKE G E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Testimony of Nanny-of-the-Maroons
Black Ice and Yellow Snow
One of the oddities of Canadian literary criticism – especially of the anglophone side – is its reluctance to canvass materials that revel in the shocking, the sensational, the scatological, the sordid, even if such revelling is conducted with consummate respect for highbrow, academic standards that must be met if the works in question are to be canonized upon university syllabi. This article maintains that Anglo Can-Lit critics look askance at C…
Re
Suivez Martin, suivez Moses!; Passage au Printemps
In 1848, Daniele Marin led a (temporarily) successful uprising against the Austrians then controlling Venezia, Italia
Jim Crow Also Lived Here
"Jim Crow Also Lived Here: Structural Racism and Generational Poverty – Growing Up Black in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Leonard Albert Paris." Canadian Historical Review, 102(3), pp. 494–495
Inventaire « Negro » / Negro Inventory
Negro Inventory(pace Léon-Gontran Damas
Ballad
Ballad:To Vote "Yes" Always for the Winnipeg General Strike! George Elliott Clarke (bio) Prologue; or An Introduction to (Bourgeois) Political Economy Gussied-up moneybags, penny-pinchingMisers and gimlet-eyed moneylenders,The pin-stripe suit vampires, and happy-hourCannibals, the well-dressed and sulky prudes, The scumbag Molochs, plumped-up parasites,Plutocrats whose bureaucracy rendersDemocracy bankrupt Kleptocracy—Where workers are monetized …
The Voices of African Canada
The Voices of African Canada:A Foreword George Elliott Clarke (bio) During my 2013-14 term as the twenty-seventh William Lyon Mackenzie King Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University, I was privileged to host a conference, nigh the terminus of my tenure, which I titled "International Perspectives on African-Canadian Literature." It was my aspiration to see the presented papers published and to enjoy a couple of days of hobnobbing with o…
Ecclesiasticus (V) and
Ecclesiasticus (V) and: Wisdom of Solomon (XIX) and: Wisdom of Solomon (II) George Elliott Clarke (bio) Ecclesiasticus (V) 1. Wealth is not Power! But Wealth buys Power. 2. Even kings are seduced—purchased—poisoned—by Wealth. 3. The problem with billionaires? They're rich:Their golden shovels can dig a billion graves. 4. Plutocrats are pissed off royally—if not worshipped as cinematic magnates.* 5. Envy not the triumphs that the worldly trump!The…
On the Centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution
On the Centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution:A Canticle George Elliott Clarke (bio) Sooner or later, it had to happen....After workers got robbed naked, gaunt, starved,Their wages vandalized, their savings stripped,By oligarchical monarchs, posh scum—Czars and Machiavellian quislings—For whom iced vodka substitutes for blood—Syphilitic financiers, chartreuse-eyed,Drooling, all master pedophiles, eagerTo beggar kids, turn em into black-…
Odysseys Home
Diary of Sally Hemings à Paris (II), and
Diary of Sally Hemings à Paris (II), and: To Milton by Phillis Wheatley (1773) George Elliott Clarke (bio) I Ben Franklin circulates like a flu. The French ministers suffer his fevered jostling—his fervent buttonholing—to preserve America from Enmity British—London’s snarling dialect. Deft is his lingo—his trompe l’oeil cunning— but Jefferson’s also as itinerant as a germ,and as infectious in his Amity(a mirage) to wheedle Intimacy with the Frenc…
Hannibal upon Rome and
Hannibal upon Rome and: Longfellow Composes a “Blues” and: Concerning Léopold II (ca. 1899) and: Frederick Douglass Considers General Robert E. Lee George Elliott Clarke (bio) Hannibal upon Rome Over the Alps, our “Long March” launched elephants as if they were as light as griffins; now Rome shakes under my ponderous thunder. Like lightning, I’ll dagger the city, so that the Capitol falls— blunt as a hammer— smashing its citizens. When we come do…
AAR Centennial Roundtable
The Log of the Vigilante
Multitudes
Poetry
Two Poems
Two Poems
The Apocrypha of Whylah Falls
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Firewater, that Lovers Pour for Prophets
Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers
May 19
Revolutionary Epoch
Unnatural Disaster
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May 19
Revolutionary Epoch
Unnatural Disaster
Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers
The Apocrypha of Whylah Falls
Left History features articles from a variety of theoretical approaches; these include feminist, marxist, and postmodernist deliberations on topics such as race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality, culture, the state, labour, the environment, theory, and method
Firewater, that Lovers Pour for Prophets
Two Poems
Two Poems
Poetry
Multitudes
The Log of the Vigilante
Hannibal upon Rome and
Hannibal upon Rome and: Longfellow Composes a “Blues” and: Concerning Léopold II (ca. 1899) and: Frederick Douglass Considers General Robert E. Lee George Elliott Clarke (bio) Hannibal upon Rome Over the Alps, our “Long March” launched elephants as if they were as light as griffins; now Rome shakes under my ponderous thunder. Like lightning, I’ll dagger the city, so that the Capitol falls— blunt as a hammer— smashing its citizens. When we come do…
AAR Centennial Roundtable
Diary of Sally Hemings à Paris (II), and
Diary of Sally Hemings à Paris (II), and: To Milton by Phillis Wheatley (1773) George Elliott Clarke (bio) I Ben Franklin circulates like a flu. The French ministers suffer his fevered jostling—his fervent buttonholing—to preserve America from Enmity British—London’s snarling dialect. Deft is his lingo—his trompe l’oeil cunning— but Jefferson’s also as itinerant as a germ,and as infectious in his Amity(a mirage) to wheedle Intimacy with the Frenc…
Odysseys Home
The Voices of African Canada
The Voices of African Canada:A Foreword George Elliott Clarke (bio) During my 2013-14 term as the twenty-seventh William Lyon Mackenzie King Professor of Canadian Studies at Harvard University, I was privileged to host a conference, nigh the terminus of my tenure, which I titled "International Perspectives on African-Canadian Literature." It was my aspiration to see the presented papers published and to enjoy a couple of days of hobnobbing with o…
Ecclesiasticus (V) and
Ecclesiasticus (V) and: Wisdom of Solomon (XIX) and: Wisdom of Solomon (II) George Elliott Clarke (bio) Ecclesiasticus (V) 1. Wealth is not Power! But Wealth buys Power. 2. Even kings are seduced—purchased—poisoned—by Wealth. 3. The problem with billionaires? They're rich:Their golden shovels can dig a billion graves. 4. Plutocrats are pissed off royally—if not worshipped as cinematic magnates.* 5. Envy not the triumphs that the worldly trump!The…
On the Centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution
On the Centennial of the October (Bolshevik) Revolution:A Canticle George Elliott Clarke (bio) Sooner or later, it had to happen....After workers got robbed naked, gaunt, starved,Their wages vandalized, their savings stripped,By oligarchical monarchs, posh scum—Czars and Machiavellian quislings—For whom iced vodka substitutes for blood—Syphilitic financiers, chartreuse-eyed,Drooling, all master pedophiles, eagerTo beggar kids, turn em into black-…
Ballad
Ballad:To Vote "Yes" Always for the Winnipeg General Strike! George Elliott Clarke (bio) Prologue; or An Introduction to (Bourgeois) Political Economy Gussied-up moneybags, penny-pinchingMisers and gimlet-eyed moneylenders,The pin-stripe suit vampires, and happy-hourCannibals, the well-dressed and sulky prudes, The scumbag Molochs, plumped-up parasites,Plutocrats whose bureaucracy rendersDemocracy bankrupt Kleptocracy—Where workers are monetized …
Inventaire « Negro » / Negro Inventory
Negro Inventory(pace Léon-Gontran Damas
Jim Crow Also Lived Here
"Jim Crow Also Lived Here: Structural Racism and Generational Poverty – Growing Up Black in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. Leonard Albert Paris." Canadian Historical Review, 102(3), pp. 494–495
Suivez Martin, suivez Moses!; Passage au Printemps
In 1848, Daniele Marin led a (temporarily) successful uprising against the Austrians then controlling Venezia, Italia
Re
The Testimony of Nanny-of-the-Maroons
Black Ice and Yellow Snow
One of the oddities of Canadian literary criticism – especially of the anglophone side – is its reluctance to canvass materials that revel in the shocking, the sensational, the scatological, the sordid, even if such revelling is conducted with consummate respect for highbrow, academic standards that must be met if the works in question are to be canonized upon university syllabi. This article maintains that Anglo Can-Lit critics look askance at C…
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