Title: Confluences 2 : essays on the new Canadian literature /
Authors: Aziz, Nurjehan
Year: 2017
Subjects: Canadian literature History and criticism; Canadian literature History and criticism.
Abstract: "This collection, second of a series, consists of essays by accomplished literary critics looking at some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last three decades. This new writing has redefined the idea of Canadian literature, just as the country began to look at itself anew. The writers discussed here hail from all parts of the world and include Dionne Brand, MG Vassanji, Olive Senior, Cecil Foster, Shani Mootoo, and others."--
Contents: "This dock is my dock": Dionne Brand's Room of light / Franca Bernabei -- Between (Hi)Story and space: Wayson Choy's Postmodern Chinatown / Jason Wang -- Landscape and diasporic citizenship(s) in Ramabai Espinet's The swinging bridge and nuclear seasons / Dannabang Kuwabong -- Cecil Foster's Sleep on, beloved: reflections on Afro-Carribbean immigrant existence in Toronto / H Nigel Thomas -- Dismantle domestics, loneliness, and creative coping in Rabindranath Maharaj's The amazing absorbing Boy / Shoilee Khan -- "The multinational's song": M G Vasanji's work in Canadian context / Laura Moss -- A long journey to mercy: Joy Kogawa's Gently to Nagasaki / Irene Sywenky -- Gendered violence and feminist interventions in Shauna Singh Baldwin's The selector of souls / Asma Sayed.