SOURCE: “Clarke vs. Clarke: Tory Elitism in Austin Clarke's Short Fiction,” in West Coast Lines, Vol. 22, Spring/Summer, 1997, pp. 110–28.
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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