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ethnicity and identities in Canadian literature

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Precarious present/promising future?

ethnicity and identities in Canadian literature

This collection of essays by feminist scholars from Canada and Israel explores the various aspects of Canadian identities and ethnic realities. A major source of tension and political conflict today, ethnicity and the problematics of identities inspire Canadian writers of all origins; to give a true picture of their society, they feel the urge to express their difference. The essays examine the voices of minority writers and of established writers from the two solitudes, whose views with regard to their identities and place in society highlight the specificity of the Canadian context. The book throws light on the paramount need to define one's position and identity in contrast to others, a need that may deny others the right to their own space. Foregrounding the diversity of perspectives characterising Canada's society, this volume will prove useful to students and researchers of Canadian Literature, Comparative Literature and the Social Sciences.

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Precarious present/promising future?: ethnicity and identities in Canadian literature
1996, Magnus Press, the Hebrew University, Distributed in North America by University of Toronto Press
in English
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Table of Contents

The rhetoric of ambivalence in Margaret Atwood's Survival / Shuli Barzilai
The subject and the nation / Bina Toledo Freiwald
We all need that bridge / Jeanne Perrault
Recontextualizing resistance / Susan Rudy
Ethnic writing in Canada / E.D. Blodgett
Memory, story, text / Janice Kulyk Keefer
Virginia Woolf revisited / Danielle Schaub
Reflections on others, the self, and God / Anya Mali
L'avant garde littéraire québécoise au féminin / Dina Haruvi
Les modalités du récit symbolique dans Les grandes marées de Jacques / Ruth Amossi
Poetry anthologies of the future/The future of poetry anthologies / Douglas Barbour.

Edition Notes

Papers chiefly in English, with 2 contributions in French.
Includes bibliographical references.
At head of title: The Halbert Centre for Canadian Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Halbert Exchange Program, the University of Toronto, the Israel Association for Canadian Studies.

Published in
Jerusalem, Toronto

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
810.9/920693
Library of Congress
PR9188.2.M55 P74 1996

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiv, 182 p. ;
Number of pages
182

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL777777M
ISBN 10
9652239577
LCCN
97179030
Goodreads
2374563

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15306914W

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