Confluences 2
Essays on the New Canadian Literature
- Publisher
- Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2017
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988449180
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $24.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781988449197
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $13.99
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The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades. Employing a variety of approaches and addressing the many concerns engaging their author-subjects--memory, history, and concentric identities; the subordination of Indian women; the exploitation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants; the "nowarianism" of Indo-Caribbean Canadians; the legacy of Japanese internment during World War II; historical Black experience and meaningful aesthetics; Chinatown as geography, repository, and inspiration--this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the idea of Canadian Literature.
Included in this volume are:
"'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-Caribbean Immigrant Existence in Toronto" --H Nigel Thomas
"Dismantled Domestics, Loneliness, and Creative Coping in Rabindranath Maharaj's The Amazing Absorbing Boy" --Shoilee Khan
"'The Multinational's Song': M G Vassanji'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
About the author
Contributor Notes
Nurjehan Aziz is the editor of Her Mother's Ashes: Stories by South Asian Women in Canada and the United States, The Relevance of Islamic Identity in Canada, and more recently Confluences 1 and Confluences 2. She is the publisher at Mawenzi House. In 2024, she was appointed to the Order of Canada.
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