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| Name: |
Austin C(hesterfield) Clarke | | Variant Name: |
Austin C. Clarke, Austin Chesterfield Clarke, Austin (Ardinel) C(hesterfield) Clarke | | Birth Date: |
July 26, 1934 | | Nationality: |
Barbadian, Canadian | | Ethnicity: |
West Indian, Barbadian | | Gender: |
Male |
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Biography of Austin C(hesterfield) Clarke
2,751 words, approx. 9 pages
 Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke is among the most prominent writers in Canada today. His Toronto trilogy ( The Meeting Point, 1967; Storm of Fortune, 1973; and The Bigger Light, 1975) and many of his short stories examine more fully and more...
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Biography of Austin C(hesterfield) Clarke
2,640 words, approx. 9 pages
 Among West Indian Writers, Austin C. Clarke occupies a special position. While many other writers migrated to Great Britain and the United States, Clarke made Canada his adopted home and became the foremost recounter of the black West Indian...


Encyclopedia and Summary Information
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Austin Clarke Information
463 words, approx. 2 pages
 Austin Ardinel Chesterfield Clarke, CM , O.Ont (born 26 July 1934) is a Canadian novelist, essayist and short story writer who lives in Toronto, Ontario. Born in St. James, Barbados, in 1955 Clarke moved to Canada, where he attended the University of...



Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Dan Coleman
10,159 words, approx. 34 pages
 In the following essay, Coleman uses Judith Butler's theory of gender performance to understand the use of masculinity as an assertion of cultural resistance in Clarke's short stories, “A Man” and “How He Does It.”
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Critical Essay by Smaro Kamboureli
9,086 words, approx. 30 pages
 In the following essay, Kamboureli focuses on Clarke's self-reflexive introduction to Nine Men Who Laughed as a tool for understanding Clarke's relationship to postcolonial discourse.
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Critical Essay by George Elliott Clarke
7,142 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the essay below, Clarke analyzes the representation of class in Austin C. Clarke's short stories and argues that Clarke ironically upholds bourgeois Canadian nationalism despite his critical stance towards it in his non-fiction writing.


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