Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-168).
Contents:
Fielding Ondaatje : a brief look at the "Canadian" response / Aparna Halpe -- Caliban's voice : Marlene Nourbese Philip's poetic response to western hegemonic discourse / H Nigel Thomas -- "Beggaring the nation" : bodily inscription and the body politic in Rohinton Mistry's A Fine Balance / W James Johnson -- Diasporic violences, uneasy friendships, and Hiromi Goto's The Kappa Child / Christine Kim -- Austin Clarke's poetic turn / Leslie Sanders -- Balancing in silence : on Rienzi Crusz's engagement with myth / Aparna Halpe -- Postcolonial mothering in Anita Rau Badami's Tamarind Mem / Asma Sayed -- Trauma and melancholia in H Nigel Thomas's Behind the Face of Winter and No Safeguards / Dannabang Kuwabong -- Cyril Dabydeen's amazing corpus / Frank Birbalsingh -- In times of upheaval: Cheran's poetic trajectory / Chelva Kanaganayakam -- South Asian poetry in Canada : in search of a place / Arun Prabha Mukherjee.
Summary:
"This collection consists of essays by accomplished literary critics looking at some of the most exciting new writing to emerge in Canada in the last three decades. This new writing has redefined the idea of Canadian Literature, just as the country began to look at itself anew. The writers discussed here hail from all parts of the world and include Rienzi Crusz, M. Nourbese Philip, Dionne Brand, Michael Ondaatje, Hiromi Goto, MG Vassanji, Anita Rau Badami, and others."-- Provided by publisher.
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