Silenced Resilience: Models of Survival in David Chariandy’s Brother

Basmah Rahman

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Vol. 47 No. 2 (2022): Special Section: Black Lives Matter

Silenced Resilience: Models of Survival in David Chariandy’s Brother

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Submitted: November 7, 2023
Published: 2023-11-16

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How to Cite

Rahman, B. (2023). Silenced Resilience: Models of Survival in David Chariandy’s Brother. Studies in Canadian Literature, 47(2), 78–99. Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/33678

Copyright Notice

[1] Abramson, Alana. “Want to Achieve the ‘American Dream’? You Might Have Better Luck in Canada.” Fortune, 10 Mar. 2017, fortune.com/2017/03/10/american-dream-cana-da-easier/.

[2] Bernard, Wanda Thomas, and Holly Smith. “Injustice, Justice, and Africentric Practice in Canada.” Canadian Social Work Review, vol. 35, no. 1, 2018, pp. 149-57, www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cswr/2018-v35-n1-cswr03948/1051108ar/.

[3] Brown, Louise. “Peel Region No Haven for Black Youth Struggling with Racism and Alienation.” Toronto Star, 10 May 2015, www.thestar.com/news/gta /2015/05/10/peel-region-no-haven-for-black-youth-struggling-with-racism-and-alienation.html.

[4] Calmore, John O. “Critical Race Theory, Archie Shepp, and Fire Music: Securing an Authentic Intellectual Life in a Multicultural World.” Southern California Law Review, vol. 65, no. 5, 1992, pp. 2129-2230.

[5] Chariandy, David. Brother. McClelland and Stewart, 2017.

[6] Cloete, Ina, and Nelson Mlambo. “A Literary Exploration of Trauma and Resilience in Tagwira’s The Uncertainty of Hope.” NAWA Journal of Language and Communication, vol. 8, no. 2, 2014, pp. 92-105.

[7] Cokley, Kevin O’Neal. “What It Means to Be Black in the American Educational System.” The Conversation, 31 Oct. 2019, theconversation.com/what-it-means-to-be-black-in-the-american-educational-system-63576.

[8] Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish. 2nd ed., Vintage Books, 1995.

[9] Frost, Samantha. Biocultural Creatures: Toward a New Theory of the Human. Duke UP, 2016. doi:10.1515/9780822374350.

[10] Hartman, Saidiya V. Scenes of Subjection: Terror, Slavery, and Self-Making in Nineteenth-Century America. Oxford UP, 1997.

[11] Hlongwane, Gugu D. “‘A Different Economy’: Postcolonial Clearings in David Chariandy’s Brother.” ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature, vol. 52, nos. 3-4, 2021, pp. 171-99.

[12] Hochanadel, Aaron, and Dora Finamore. “Fixed and Growth Mindset in Education and How Grit Helps Students Persist in the Face of Adversity.” Journal of International Education Research, vol. 11, no. 1, 2015, pp. 47-50. doi:10.19030/jier.v11i1.9099

[13] Joseph, Jonathan. “Resilience as Embedded Neoliberalism: A Governmentality Approach.” Resilience, vol. 1, no. 1, 2013, pp. 38-52. doi:10.1080/21693293.2013.765741.

[14] Ley, David, and Heather Smith. “Relations between Deprivation and Immigrant Groups in Large Canadian Cities.” Urban Studies, vol. 37, no. 1, 2000, pp. 37-62. doi:10.1080/0042098002285.

[15] Magis, Kristen. “Community Resilience: An Indicator of Social Sustainability.” Society and Natural Resources, vol. 23, no. 5, 2010, pp. 401-16. doi:10.1080/08941920903305674.

[16] Maynard, Robyn. “Canadian Education Is Steeped in Anti-Black Racism.” The Walrus, 29 Nov. 2017, thewalrus.ca/canadian-education-is-steeped-in-anti-black-racism/.

[17] Maynard, Robyn. Policing Black Lives: State Violence in Canada from Slavery to the Present. Fernwood Publishing, 2017.

[18] McKittrick, Katherine. “Rebellion/Invention/Groove.” Small Axe, vol. 20, no. 1 (49), 2016, pp. 79-91. doi:10.1215/07990537-3481558.

[19] McKittrick, Katherine, and Alexander Weheliye. “808s and Heartbreak Weheliye.” Propetor Nos, 12 Oct. 2017, pp. 13-42.

[20] Park, Yoosun, et al. “Disciplining the Risky Subject: A Discourse Analysis of the Concept of Resilience in Social Work Literature.” Journal of Social Work, vol. 20, no. 2, 2018, pp. 1-21. doi:10.1177/1468017318792953.

[21] Pratt, Mary Louise. “Arts of the Contact Zone.” Profession, 1991, pp. 33-40, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/25595469.

[22] Pratt, Mary Louise. Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation. Routledge, 1992.

[23] Prychitko, David L. Markets, Planning and Democracy: Essays after the Collapse of Socialism. Edward Elgar, 2002.

[24] Razack, Sherene. “The ‘Sharia Law Debate’ in Ontario: The Modernity/Premodernity Distinction in Legal Efforts to Protect Women from Culture.” Feminist Legal Studies, vol. 15, no. 3, 2007, pp. 3-32.

[25] Rush, Elizabeth. “Persimmons.” Rising: Dispatches from the New American, Milkweed Editions, 2018, pp. 19-41.

[26] Russell, Tammy. “Why Resilience Is Critical in a Learning Environment.” Whole Child Education, n.d., www.wholechildeducation.org/blog/why-resilience-is-critical-in-a-learning-environment.

[27] Stout, Madeleine Dion, and Gregory Kipling. Aboriginal People, Resilience and the Residential School Legacy. Aboriginal Healing Foundation, 2003.

[28] Teasley, Cathryn, and Alana Butler. “Intersecting Critical Pedagogies to Counter Coloniality.”The SAGE Handbook of Critical Pedagogies, edited by Shirley R. Steinberg and Barry Down, SAGE Publications, 2020, pp. 186-204.

[29] Thobani, Sunera. “Introduction: Of Exaltation.” Exalted Subjects: Studies in the Making of Race and Nation in Canada, U of Toronto P, 2007, pp. 3-30.

[30] Tuck, Eve, and C. Ree. “A Glossary of Haunting.” Handbook of Autoethnography, edited by Stacy Holman Jones and Tony Adams, Routledge, 2013, pp. 639-58.

[31] Van Breda, Adrian D. “A Critical Review of Resilience Theory and Its Relevance for Social Work.” Social Work, vol. 54, no. 1, 2018, pp. 1-18, www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0037-80542018000100002&nrm=iso.

[32] Walcott, Rinaldo. Black Like Who? Writing Black Canada. 2nd rev. ed., Insomniac Press, 2003.

[33] Ware, Syrus Marcus, et al. Until We Are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada. U of Regina P, 2020.

[34] Zimmerman, Marc A. “Resiliency Theory: A Strengths-Based Approach to Research and Practice for Adolescent Health.” Health Education and Behavior: The Official Publication of the Society for Public Health Education, vol. 40, no. 4, 2013, pp. 381-83. doi:10.117 7/1090198113493782.