Confluences 3: Essays on the New Canadian Literature

The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1 and continued in Confluences 2, 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 women; and racism, this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the traditional idea of Canadian Literature. Included in this volume are:

• "Other Languages in National Literatures: W.H. Hudson's English Argentina and Pablo Urbanyi's Argentine Canada." --Hugh Hazelton
• "Racial Re/Profiling: the plays of Andrew Moodie." --Leslie Sanders
• "Searching for the Ancestral Past in the Caribbean: Dannabang Kuwabong's Caribbean Blues & Love's Genealogy and Voices from Kibuli Country." --Horace Goddard
• "Haunting the Human: M. NourbeSe Philip's Poetics of Un --Kate Siklosi
• "Performing Male Monstrosity or Failed Masculinities? Shani Mootoo's Literary Oeuvre" --Juan M Salom? Villarini
• "Pamela Mordecai and Canadian Literary Transcultural Eschatology" --Dannabang Kuwabong

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Mawenzi House Publishers Ltd.
Published: 09/01/2021
ISBN: 9781774150474
Pages: 144