Tricks with a glass : : writing ethnicity in Canada / / edited by Recio G. Davis & Rosalia Baena.

Studies of literary reflections on ethnicity are essential to the ever-renewed definition of Canadian literature. The essays in this collection explore the diverse ways of negotiating identity and the articulation of space in Canada, taking ethnicity as a driving force with ideological and cultural...

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Superior document:Cross/Cultures ; 46
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam, Netherlands : : Rodopi B.Y.,, [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Cross/Cultures ; 46.
Physical Description:1 online resource (325 pages)
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgements. Rocío G. DAVIS: Introduction: On Writing Ethnicity in Canada. Janice KULYK KEEFER: Personal and Public Records: Story and History in the Narration and Ethnicity. Eva DARIAS BEAUTELL: Writing Back and Beyond: Postcoloniality, Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in the Canadian Context. Aitor IBARROLA-ARMENDARIZ: Boundary Erasing: Postnational Characterization in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient. Kathleen FIRTH: Home is No-Place: Neil Bissoondath's A Casual Brutality . Rocío G. DAVIS: Paradigms of Postcolonial and Immigrant Doubleness: Rohinton Mistry's Tales From Firozsha Baag . Rosalía BAENA: Italian-Canadian Double Perspective in a Childhood Narrative: Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints . Marie-France GARCIA RAOUL-JOURDE: Antonine Maillet and the Recognition of Acadian Identity. Danielle SCHAUB: Acadian Estrangement and Reunion: Janice Kulyk Keefer's "April Showers". Lars JENSEN: Canadian Writing and the Articulation of North. Mary CONDÉ: Marketing Ethnicity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Café . Eva DARIAS BEAUTELL: The Imaginary Ethnic Anachronies, (Im)Mobility and Historical Meaning in Obasan and Disappearing Moon Café . Danielle SCHAUB: "all so paralyzing and mean': Stereotypical Thinking and Disempowering Focalization in Lee Maracle's "Bertha". Ana I. PAREJO VADILLO: Collective Auto/Biographies: Native Women and Resistance Literature. María Belén MARTÍN LUCAS: Interweaving Stories: Genre, Race and Gender at a Cross-Stitch. Wayson CHOY interviewed by Rocío G. Davis: Intercultural, Not Multicultural. Linda HUTCHEON interviewed by Rosalía BAENA: Critical Perspectives on Writing Ethnicity in Canada. Contributors.