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 h...
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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 fo...
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In the following review, Ryan praises Clarke's skillful use of memory as a source of inspiration for the characters in When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks.
That the black ma...
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In the following review, Garebian evaluates Clarke's depiction of racism and its brutal impact on the West Indian immigrant characters in When Women Rule.
The title of [When Women Rule] is s...
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In the review below, Bissoondath praises Clarke's skillful depiction of the complex relationship between West Immigrants and Canadian society in When Women Rule.
In an interview in a recent ...
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In the review below, Brydon describes Clarke's short story collection When Women Rule as misogynist, and suggests that Clarke loses control of his material.
Meredith Carey's critical ...
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In the following essay, Brown explores the relationship between Canadian fiction and Caribbean nationalism in Clarke's writing.
In the Clarke short story, “Doing Right,” a stre...
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In the following essay, Brown discusses the roles of Clarke's men and women in his fiction.
There is a certain familiarity about the image of May Thorne at the conclusion of Proud Empires&#x...
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In the following essay, Brown discusses Clarke's conception of style and spiritual power.
Clarke's mastery of the Barbadian dialect as a narrative form has always been one of his most...
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In the following essay, Brown delineates Clarke's transformation of New World myths, and claims that Clarke's work is part of the New World literary tradition.
As satire, Clarke...
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In the following essay, Ramraj examines Clarke's harsh depiction of the abuses West Indian immigrants often face, and concludes that Clarke's militancy intrudes upon otherwise skillfully...
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In the following essay, Algoo-Baksh discusses the autobiographical elements in When He Was Free and Young and He Used to Wear Silks and When Women Rule.
Of the total of sixteen stories in the Canad...
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In the following review, Sumi is critical of Clarke's There Are No Elders for its heavy-handed prose and morose themes.
With its title and epigraph taken from Derek Walcott (“There ar...
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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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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...
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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, &...
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Austin C(hesterfield) Clarke
Critical Review by Frank Ryan
