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Literary Criticism Canadian

Confluences 2

Essays on the New Canadian Literature

edited by Nurjehan Aziz

Publisher
Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Nov 2017
Category
Canadian
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781988449180
    Publish Date
    Nov 2017
    List Price
    $24.95
  • 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.