Resilience and ethics of care against racial capitalism in David Chariandy’s Brother
Resilience and ethics of care against racial capitalism in David Chariandy’s Brother

Summary/Abstract: This article reads David Chariandy’s elegiac novel Brother (2017) through the lens of resiliencethinking in tandem with the ethics of care. Staged in a suffocating context of police violence andsurveillance and the ideological premises of Canadian racial capitalism, the plot revolves aroundFrancis and Michael, two Black Canadian brothers from Scarborough. The story unfolds Fran-cis’s tragic death while trying to protect his friends from the police. To counteract the Anti-Black-ness that is proffered by the nation-state, the novel opts for collaborative acts of resilience basedon a compromise to care for one another. The ethics of care become a way to accommodatea compromised resilience that reveals the shortcomings of Canadian multiculturalism policies.

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