Welcome to Call and Response-ability: Black Canadian Works of Art and the Politics of Relation. This is the companion website for a book project on the contexts, reception, and reception aesthetics of Black Canadian cultural achievement, including writing, music, film, and visual art. Like the website, the publishing process is in progress. The Call for Papers is closed as we have received a large number of outstanding contributions and the volume is in press. We now look forward to the book being published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in June 2026. For any questions, please get in touch with the organizers.
This website also offers a few reference materials that might be useful for any critical work in the project area: a general working bibliography, prepared by Valerie Uher, a bibliography with studies relevant to Black-indigenous solidarities, prepared by Karina Vernon, and a list that features various awards and prizes that celebrate Black Canadian authors and their contributions to literature across international, national, and provincial levels, prepared by Lara El Mekaui. You will also find here the description of a project-related panel at the Conference of the Modern Language Association (MLA) on Saturday, January 9, 2021.
The project is part of a joint research undertaking directed by Karina Vernon (University of Toronto) and Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo), funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.
