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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.

Canadian literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism

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Chinese literature --- Manchu literature --- Manchus --- Minority authors

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American literature --- Ethnic groups --- Canadian literature --- Caribbean literature (English) --- Minorities --- Minorities --- Minority authors --- Minority authors

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Comment figure-t-on la peau à l’écran, dans sa double fonction de surface et d’enveloppe corporelles ? Comment les cinéastes la représentent-ils dans la diversité de ses marques et inscriptions, de ses couleurs et textures ? Quelles valeurs esthétiques, symboliques, idéologiques, voire politiques, revêt-elle au sein d’une fiction cinématographique, selon l’époque et l’aire culturelle ? Dans quelle mesure l’image et la surface écranique peuvent-elles se muer elles-mêmes en peau du film ? Telles sont les questions auxquelles chercheurs et praticiens du cinéma se proposent ici de répondre au prisme d’un corpus de films pluriel et multiculturel. Cet ouvrage collectif vous propose une plongée dans l’imaginaire épidermique de réalisateurs issus de différents horizons, au croisement de l’analyse universitaire et de témoignages inédits de professionnels du cinéma. Des Yeux sans visage à La piel que habito, de The Pillow Book à Memento, sans oublier quelques détours par les cinémas du Japon, de la Grande-Bretagne, de la Russie, des pays lusophones ou hispano-américains, les peaux de l’écran sont explorées dans la multiplicité de leurs formes, de leurs sens et de leurs enjeux. How is skin depicted on screen, be it as the body’s surface or its envelope? How do filmmakers represent skin in its multitude of marks, inscriptions, colours and textures? What aesthetic, symbolic, ideological, or even political values does skin adopt in cinematographic fiction, depending on the period and the cultural area of the film? To what extent can the surfaces of the image and the screen themselves become the film’s skin? In this book, researchers and cinema professionals offer answers to these questions through a plural and multicultural selection of films. This collective work dives into the epidermal imaginative world of directors from various backgrounds, at the crossroads of academic analyses and exclusive testimonies from those who work in the film industry. From Eyes Without a Face to La Piel Que Habito, from The Pillow Book to Memento, and including a few incursions into cinema from Japan, Great Britain, Russia, Portuguese-speaking or Spanish-American countries, this collection explores the multiple shapes, meanings, and implications of skins of and on the screen.

Literature --- Critical pedagogy. --- Study and teaching. --- Minority authors

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This volume departs from a more static concept of identity politics to engage the varied and entangled processes of ethnic/racial, national, and gender identifications in a range of contemporary US ethnic texts (from the mid-1960s to the mid-1990s). Recognizing the growing salience of variously named ethnic, multicultural, and minority literatures as they are produced and circulated in the USA and worldwide nowadays, this work charts four broadly defined models of approaching such texts: cultural nationalism, ethnic feminism, borderlands and contact zones, and finally, the diasporic model. Drawing extensively on psychoanalytic theory, feminist/gender studies, critical race theory, postcolonial theory, and its revision of ethnography, the book offers a fresh, engaged, theoretically, and analytically well-rehearsed overview of the distinctive and determining features of a rapidly expanding domain of contemporary US literary production, namely, ethnic literatures. Of potential interest to scholars of American/US literature, but also minority and postcolonial literatures, and to students of American literature, the book attempts an interethnic comparative approach to well- and lesser-known texts. Among the authors represented are Shawn Wong, Oscar Zeta Acosta, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Sherman Alexie, Denise Chávez, Rolando Hinojosa, Roberto Fernández and Edwidge Danticat.

American literature --- Ethnicity in literature. --- Ethnic literature (American) --- Minority literature (American) --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors.