“This has always been a problem in terms of Black author texts especially, because . While Black writers were beginning to be published by more mainstream publishers in the 1960s, Henderson self-published her poetry chapbook in 1967. But, “Yes, she was the first Black woman to publish a collection of poetry in Canada,” Clarke says. Even so, it’s hard to tell that some of these works were written by Black writers. “A lot of white writers in particular were taken with his portrait of a more or less amiable enslavement,” Clarke says.

Source: thestar February 03, 2018 12:37 UTC