Title: Adjacencies : minority writing in Canada /
Authors: Beneventi, Domenic A., 1970-; Canton, Licia, 1963-; Moyes, Lianne, 1963-
Publisher: Guernica,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Canadian literature Minority authors History and criticism.; Minorities Canada Intellectual life.; Ethnic groups in literature.; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature.
Abstract: "Canada has often been described as a patchwork of cultural and linguistic communities that continually intersect with one another in interesting and provocative ways. This collection of essays provides a forum in which ethnicity and literature are explored form a broad range of critical perspectives including feminism, psychoanalysis, cinema, cultural studies, history, gender and native studies. They do so by addressing the many ways in which minority writers not only create sense of community and ethnic specificity but also open avenues of discourse to adjacent communities. This collection discusses and debates the issues pertinent to contemporary ethnic/minority studies in Canada."--Jacket.
Contents: Introduction: "Land to light on? / Sherry Simon -- The construction of minority subjectivities at the end of the twentieth century / Amaryll Chanady -- Ethics and the imaginary / Lucie Lequin -- Cracking the boundaries: Icelandic-Canadian challenges to Canadian literature / Daisy Neijmann -- Representations of the "Native condition" in Watson's The Double hook and Deep Hollow Creek / Samara Walbohm -- This tormenting time of indecision : performative metaphors in Austin Clarke's The Origin of waves / Heike Harting -- Ondaatje goes to Hollywood : the costs of mainstream arrival for the representation of cultural difference / Don Randall -- The clash of languages in the Italian-Canadian novel / Licia Canton -- Tongue in cheek : Dutch in Aritha van Herk's writing / Christl Verduyn -- Unexpected adjacencies : Robert Majzel's City of Forgetting / Lianne Moyes -- The third solitude : Francophone writing in the Canadian west / Pamela V. Sing -- Ethnic heterotopias : the construction of "place" in Italian-Canadian writing / Domenic A. Beneventi -- One hybrid discourse of Doukhobor identity : the freedomite diary from Agassiz Prison / Julie Rak.