Tricks with a Glass: Writing Ethnicity in CanadaRocío G. Davis, Rosalía Baena Rodopi, 2000 - 301 páginas Studies of literary reflections on ethnicity are essential to the ever-renewed definition of Canadian literature. The essays in this collection explore the diverse ways of negotiating identity and the articulation of space in Canada, taking ethnicity as a driving force with ideological and cultural implications that lend public and literary discourse an urgent dynamism. While theorizing ethnicity is a valuable critical enterprise, these essays centre on the concrete realization of the problematics of ethnicity in creative writing, covering a wide range of Canada's mosaic. The creative inscription of ethnicity stimulates the evolution and expansion of Canada's literary heritage, the complexity of this cultural experience being the focus of the present collection. Fourteen essays, including a personal account by the Ukrainian-Canadian Janice Kulyk Keefer on the merging of private and public history, and two interviews - with the Chinese-Canadian writer Wayson Choy and the critic Linda Hutcheon - analyze the manifestations of the pluralism that has always characterized Canadian writers' consciousness of themselves, their engagement with the notion of the 'multicultural' and its significance in contemporary society and, in particular, its effect on creativity. |
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Writing Ethnicity in Canada Rocío G. Davis, Rosalía Baena. Writing Ethnicity in Canada Cultures Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English Tricks with a Glass.
Writing Ethnicity in Canada Rocío G. Davis, Rosalía Baena. Writing Ethnicity in Canada Cultures Readings in the Post / Colonial Literatures in English Tricks with a Glass.
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... Colonial Literatures in English 46 Series Editors : Gordon Collier ( Giessen ) Hena Maes - Jelinek Geoffrey Davis ( Liège ) ( Aachen ) Rodopi Amsterdam - Atlanta , GA 2000 Writing Ethnicity in Canada Edited by Rocío G. Davis & Cross /
... Colonial Literatures in English 46 Series Editors : Gordon Collier ( Giessen ) Hena Maes - Jelinek Geoffrey Davis ( Liège ) ( Aachen ) Rodopi Amsterdam - Atlanta , GA 2000 Writing Ethnicity in Canada Edited by Rocío G. Davis & Cross /
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... colonial experience . In spite of the prefix ' post- , ' the term ' postcolonial ' in this book covers a certain range of literature originating in spaces colonized by the British and produced both during and after that colonial ...
... colonial experience . In spite of the prefix ' post- , ' the term ' postcolonial ' in this book covers a certain range of literature originating in spaces colonized by the British and produced both during and after that colonial ...
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... colonial elite in the form of exploration and travel literature ; the second stage , mimicry , represents the incorporation by the imperial centre of those ' ethnic ' texts that begin to appear in emulation of the imperial model . The ...
... colonial elite in the form of exploration and travel literature ; the second stage , mimicry , represents the incorporation by the imperial centre of those ' ethnic ' texts that begin to appear in emulation of the imperial model . The ...
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... colonial societies can best be appreciated . Take , for instance , Margaret At- wood's portrait , in Cat's Eye , of the confusing imperial doctrine received at school in postwar Canada . Although the children are taught to be grateful ...
... colonial societies can best be appreciated . Take , for instance , Margaret At- wood's portrait , in Cat's Eye , of the confusing imperial doctrine received at school in postwar Canada . Although the children are taught to be grateful ...
Índice
Antonine Maillet and the Recognition of Acadian Identity | 111 |
Canadian Writing and the Articulation of North | 149 |
The Imaginary Ethnic | 191 |
Intercultural Not Multicultural | 269 |
Critical Perspectives on Writing Ethnicity in Canada | 287 |
Contributors | 299 |
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Acadian American Antonine Maillet become Bertha c'est Cana Canada Canadian Fiction Canadian Literature Canadian writers characters Chinatown Chinese Chinese-Canadian colonial Contemporary context critical cultural Dené dian Disappearing Moon Cafe discourse English Patient Essays ethnic experience feel Firozsha Baag French genre Gwei Chang Halfbreed Helen Tiffin identity ideology images immigrant Indian indigenous Inuit irony Jade Peony Janice Kulyk Keefer Japanese-Canadians Jeanne Joy Kogawa Kae's Knockwood l'Acadie La Sagouine land language Lee Maracle Linda Hutcheon literary lives Louise Louise's Maracle's Matushak memories Michael Ondaatje Mistry Mistry's mother multiculturalism myth narrative narrator novel Obasan Ondaatje's past Pélagie political postcolonial postmodern reader reading representation Sagouine sense Short Story short-story cycle Sky Lee social space speak Spivak Story Cycles storytelling tell theme tion Tomasz Toronto tradition transcultural Ukrainian Vancouver village Vittorio voice Wiebe's woman women writers words
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Página 83 - No more of that. I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice...
Página 252 - ... a book of short stories so linked to each other by their author that the reader's successive experience on various levels of the pattern of the whole significantly modifies his experience of each of its component parts ( 19).
Página 43 - American, French, I don't care. When you start bombing the brown races of the world, you're an Englishman. You had King Leopold of Belgium and now you have fucking Harry Truman of the USA. You all learned it from the English.
Página 41 - Just the Bedouin and us, crisscrossing the Forty Days Road. There were rivers of desert tribes, the most beautiful humans I've met in my life. We were German, English, Hungarian, African — all of us insignificant to them. Gradually we became nationless. I came to hate nations. We are deformed by nation-states.
Página 37 - American writers may yet indicate that a vast intellectual fusion and synthesis of the various National tendencies of the world is the condition of more important achievements than any we have seen.
Página 185 - I wonder. Maybe this is a chinese-in-Canada trait, a part of the great wall of silence and invisibility we have built around us. I have a misgiving that the telling of our history is forbidden. I have violated a secret code. There is power in silence, as this is the way we have always maintained strict control against the more disturbing aspects in our human nature. But what about speaking out for a change, despite its unpredictable...
Página 88 - ... outside, at the flakes of falling snow. What thoughts is he thinking as he watches them? Of childhood days, perhaps, and snowmen with hats and pipes, and snowball fights, and white Christmases, and Christmas trees? What will I think of, old in this country, when I sit and watch the snow come down? For me, it is already too late for snowmen and snowball fights, and all I will have is thoughts about childhood thoughts and dreams, built around snowscapes and winter-wonderlands on the Christmas cards...
Página 20 - In other words the alienating process which initially served to relegate the post-colonial world to the 'margin' turned upon itself and acted to push that world through a kind of mental barrier into a position from which all experience could be viewed as uncentred, pluralistic, and multifarious. Marginality thus became an unprecedented source of creative energy.
Página 83 - ... in. The others looked at him with admiration. Then Viraf asked what exactly he meant by that. Jehangir said that Nariman sometimes told a funny incident in a very serious way, or expressed a significant matter in a light and playful manner. And these were only two rough divisions, in between were lots...