Beschrijving
Original publisher’s sewn paperback, pictorial frontcover, 8vo: xiv, 270pp., illustrated, 20 contributions, footnotes/references, list of contributors. Contents: Preface. Part 1: General Perspectives. 1. Frank Davey: The Canadas of Anglophone-Canadian Fiction 1967-90. 2. Richard Collins: The North Atlantic Cultural Triangle. The Bermuda Syndrome? 3. David Hutchison: National Culture and National Identity. Literature and the Media. 4. Lynette Hunter: Alternative Publishing in Canada. Part 2: Ethnicity/ Multiculturalism. 5. Janice Kulyk Keefer: From Dialogue to Polylogue. Canadian Transcultural Writing During the Deluge. 6. Coral Ann Howells: “Home Ground/Foreign Territory”. Transculturalism in Contemporary Canadian. Women’s Short Stories in English. 7. Wolfgang Klooss: Henry Kreisel’s “The Almost Meeting”. An Intertextual Reading of Jewish Writing in the Canadian West. 8. Susan Spearey: Homelands and Habitations in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee. 9. Leon Litvack: The Weight of Cultural Baggage. Frank Paci and the Italian-Canadian Experience. 10. Ian Lockerbie: The Ethnic Other in Quebec Cinema. 11. Hartmut Lutz: Robbed Graves, Whiteshamans, and Stolen Stories. (Re-?)Appropriations of Native Cultures. Part 3: Gender. 12. Barbara Korte: Gentle-Women in the Wilderness. Self-Images of British-Canadian Pioneer Women. 13. Kit Stead: The Twinkling of an “I”. Subjectivity and Language in Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth. 14. Marion Wynne-Davies: “Just Scribbling”. Fiction/theory in Nicole Brossard’s Mauve ” Desert ” and Daphne Marlatt’s Ana ” Historic “. 15. Jill Lebihan: Freaks and Others. The Biggest Modern Women and the World. Part 4: Representations of Crisis and Renewal. 16. Norbert H. Platz: Imaging the City in Confederation Poetry. 17. Frank K. Stanzel: “In Flanders field the poppies blow”. Canada and the Great War. 18. Peter Easingwood: The Appeal of Failure. Lewis’s Self Condemned and Lowry’s October Ferry to Gabriola. 19. Martin Kuester: Traces of Europe in Robert Kroetsch’s Fiction, or “I wish I’d had a crack at that Henry the Eighth”. 20. Waldemar Zacharasiewicz: Experienced Travellers in Jack Hodgins’s Recent Fiction. Exploration of Inner Landscapes. Very fine copy – as new. Volume 20: Cross/Cultures. Readings in the Post/Colonial Literatures in English.