Writing ethnicity : cross-cultural consciousness in Canadian and Québecois literature / edited by Winfried Siemerling.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Siemerling, Winfried.

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Canadian literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

Canadian literature.

Canadian literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Ethnicity in literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Multiculturalism in literature.

Cultural pluralism in literature.

Canadian literature--Minority authors.

Physical Description:

234 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Cross-cultural consciousness in Canadian and Québecois literature

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ont. : ECW Press, [1996]

Language Note:

In English, with two contributions in French.

Summary:

This volume gathers North American cultural comment and literary criticism on the role of particular cultures in what is commonly referred to as Canadian and Qué bé cois literature.

Contents:

Writing ethnicity : introduction / Winfried Siemerling

States of belonging : pluralism, migrancy, literature / Ranu Samantrai

Technologies of ethnicity / Dawn Thompson

Reading ethnicity into life writing : out of "Under the ribs of death" and into the "Light of chaos"

Béla Szabados's narrator rewrites Sandor Hunyadi / Marlene Kadar

"Coming across bones" : historiographic ethnofiction / Janice Kulyk Keefer

La passion du detour : écritures italiennes au Québec / Pierre Nepveu

Exoticism and ethnicity in Michael Ondaatje's Running in the family / Graham Huggan

Quelques mouvements de transculture / Lucie Lequin

Anthologizing the collective : the epic struggles to establish Canadian Chinese literature in English / Lien Chao

West Indian Canadian writing : crossing the border from exile to immigration / Monika Kaup

"Am I blackening in my way" : identity and place in Dionne Brandt's no language is neutral / Teresa Zackodnik

Signifying contamination : on Austin Clarke's Nine men who laughed / Smaro Kambourelli.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1550222805

OCLC:

35832570