Tricks with a Glass Writing Ethnicity in Canada

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Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On Writing Ethnicity in Canada

Personal and Public Records: Story and History in the Narration of Ethnicity

Writing Back and Beyond: Postcoloniality, Multiculturalism and Ethnicity in the Canadian Context

Boundary Erasing: Fostnational Characterization in Michael Ondaatje's The English Patient

Home is No-Place: Neil Bissoondath's A Casual Brutality

Paradigms of Postcolonial and Immigrant Doubleness: Rohinton Mistry's Tales From Firozsha Baag Italian-Canadian Double Perspective in a Childhood Narrative: Nino Ricci's Lives of the Saints

Antonine Maillet and the Recognition of Acadian Identity

Acadian Estrangement and Reunion: Janice Kulyk Keefer's "April Showers"

Canadian Writing and the Articulation of North

Marketing Ethnicity: Sky Lee's Disappearing Moon Cafe

The Imaginary Ethnic Anachronies, (Im)Mobility and Historical Meaning in Obasan and Disappearing Moon Cafe

"all so paralyzing and mean": Stereotypical Thinking and Disempowering Focalization in Lee Maracle's "Bertha" Collective Auto/Biographies: Native Women and Resistance Literature

Interweaving Stories: Genre, Race and Gender at a Cross-Stitch

Intercultural, Not Multicultural

Critical Perspectives on Writing Ethnicity in Canada

Contributors