“This Accounting Is Impossible!”: Kaie Kellough’s Rereading of Hubert Aquin’s Hamidou Diop

Zishad Lak

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Vol. 49 No. 2 (2024): Special Issue: (Re)Reading Race and Colonialism in the Québécois Canon / (Re)lire la race et le colonialisme dans le canon Québécois

“This Accounting Is Impossible!”: Kaie Kellough’s Rereading of Hubert Aquin’s Hamidou Diop

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Submitted: February 24, 2026
Published: 2026-03-06

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How to Cite

Lak, Z. (2026). “This Accounting Is Impossible!”: Kaie Kellough’s Rereading of Hubert Aquin’s Hamidou Diop. Studies in Canadian Literature, 49(2). Retrieved from https://journals.lib.unb.ca/index.php/SCL/article/view/36011

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[1] Alexis, André. “Borrowed Blackness.” This Magazine, vol. 28, no. 8, 1995, pp. 14-20.

[2] Allen, Lillian. “Lillian Allen: What Is Dub Poetry?” YouTube, uploaded by Different Knowings, 2 Sept. 2011, www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWrvzUMc2aI&t=10s.

[3] Aquin, Hubert. Prochain épisode. Edited by Jacques Allard, Bibliothèque Québécoise, 2006.

[4] Austin, David. Fear of a Black Nation: Race, Sex and Security in Sixties Montreal. Between the Lines, 2013.

[5] Brand, Dionne. Bread Out of Stone. Vintage Canada, 2019.

[6] Brathwaite, Kamau. History of the Voice: The Development of Nation Language in Anglophone Caribbean Poetry. New Beacon Books, 1984.

[7] Cornellier, Bruno. “The Struggle of Others: Pierre Vallières, Quebecois Settler Nationalism, and the N-Word Today.” Discourse, vol. 39, no. 1, 2017, pp. 31-66.

[8] Étienne, Gérard. La question raciale et raciste dans le roman québécois: Essai d’anthroposémiologie. Éditions Balzac, 1995.

[9] Fabre, Gérard. “Return to Analogy: Quebecers and African Americans in Pierre Vallières’s White N[*] of America.” Québec Studies, no. 62, 2016, pp. 47-70.

[10] Hanchard, Michael. “Black Memory versus State Memory: Notes toward a Method.” Small Axe, vol. 12, no. 2, 2008, pp. 45-62.

[11] Kellough, Kaie. Dominoes at the Crossroads. Esplanade, 2020.

[12] —. “Fire in the Mainframe: The Sir George Williams Computer Center Occupation of 1969 as Narrative.” Topia, no. 44, 2022, pp. 25-32.

[13] —. Lettricity. Cumulus Press, 2004.

[14] Kellough, Kaie, and Jason Selman. Talking Book: Blues, Jazz, Dub, Rap, Song and Freedom in the Literature and Orature of Montréal’s Kalmunity Vibe Collective. Cumulus Press, 2006.

[15] Kullberg, Christina. “Vernacular Soundings: Poetry from the Lesser Antilles in the Aftermaths of Hurricanes Irma and Maria.” Vernaculars in an Age of World Literatures, edited by Christina Kullberg and David Watson, Bloomsbury Academic, 2022, pp. 101-26.

[16] MacCabée Iqbal, Françoise. “Prochain épisode et policier: Parodie générique ou non?” French Review, vol. 59, no. 6, 1986, pp. 875-84.

[17] McKittrick, Katherine. Demonic Grounds: Black Women and the Cartographies of Struggle. U of Minnesota P, 2006.

[18] Muñoz, José Esteban. The Sense of Brown: Ethnicity, Affect, and Performance. Duke UP, 2020.

[19] Paterson, Janet M. “La question raciale et raciste dans le roman québécois by Gérard Étienne (review).” University of Toronto Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 1, 1997-98, pp. 470-73.

[20] Reckin, Anna. “Tidalectic Lectures: Kamau Brathwaite’s Prose/Poetry as Sound-Space.” Anthurium, vol. 1, no. 1, 2003, Article 5, pp. 1-16. DOI: 10.33596/anth.4.

[21] Scott, Corrie. De Groulx à Laferrière: Un parcours de la race dans la littérature québécoise. XYZ Éditeur, 2014.

[22] Sekou, Lasana M. Big Up St. Martin. House of Nehesi Publishers, 1999.

[23] Sharpe, Christina. In the Wake: On Blackness and Being. Duke UP, 2016.

[24] Smart, Patricia. “Hubert Aquin.” The Canadian Encyclopedia, 24 April 2014, Historica Canada, www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/fr/article/hubert-aquin.

[25] Wynter, Sylvia. “But What Does ‘Wonder’ Do? Meanings, Canons, Too? On Literary Texts, Cultural Contexts, and What It’s Like to Be One/Not One of Us.” Stanford Humanities Review, vol. 4, no. 1, 1995, pp. 124-29.