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Critical of a widespread disengagement from civic participation and of the contemporary novel's disconnection from politics, this fiction attempts to transform the novel and the practice of reading into a means of political engagement and an inspiration for social change.

Religion in literature. --- Politics and literature --- Women and literature --- American fiction --- Religion in drama --- Religion in poetry --- History --- Minority authors --- History and criticism. --- Women authors

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Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race, nation, and difference. In asking how Indigenous and diasporic interventions have remapped these debates, the contributors argue that a new “cultural grammar” is at work and attempt to sketch out some of the ways it operates. The essays reference pivotal moments in Canadian literary and cultural history and speak to ongoing debates about Canadian nationalism, postcolonalism, migrancy, and transnationalism. Topics covered include the Asian race riots in Vancouver in 1907, the cultural memory of internment and dispersal of Japanese Canadians in the 1940s, the politics of migrant labour and the “domestic labour scheme” in the 1960s, and the trial of Robert Pickton in Vancouver in 2007. The contributors are particularly interested in how diaspora and indigeneity continue to contribute to this critical reconfiguration and in how conversations about diaspora and indigeneity in the Canadian context have themselves been transformed. Cultural Grammars is an attempt to address both the interconnections and the schisms between these multiply fractured critical terms as well as the larger conceptual shifts that have occurred in response to national and postnational arguments.

Native peoples --- Minorities --- Canadian literature (English) --- Ethnic minorities --- Foreign population --- Minority groups --- Persons --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Discrimination --- Ethnic relations --- Majorities --- Plebiscite --- Race relations --- Segregation --- English literature --- Canadian literature --- Social conditions. --- Indian authors --- History and criticism. --- Minority authors --- Socioeconomic conditions --- Socioeconomic status --- Social history --- Canada --- Indigenous peoples --- Aboriginal peoples --- Aborigines --- Adivasis --- Indigenous populations --- Native races --- Ethnology --- Littérature canadienne de langue anglaise --- Minorités --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Histoire et critique

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Borrowed Tongues is the first consistent attempt to apply the theoretical framework of translation studies in the analysis of self-representation in life writing by women in transnational, diasporic, and immigrant communities. It focuses on linguistic and philosophical dimensions of translation, showing how the dominant language serves to articulate and reinforce social, cultural, political, and gender hierarchies. Drawing on feminist, poststructuralist, and postcolonial scholarship, this study examines Canadian and American examples of traditional autobiography, autoethnography, and experimental narrative. As a prolific and contradictory site of linguistic performance and cultural production, such texts challenge dominant assumptions about identity, difference, and agency. Using the writing of authors such as Marlene NourbeSe Philip, Jamaica Kincaid, Laura Goodman Salverson, and Akemi Kikumura, and focusing on discourses through which subject positions and identities are produced, the study argues that different concepts of language and translation correspond with particular constructions of subjectivity and attitudes to otherness. A nuanced analysis of intersectional differences reveals gender, race, ethnicity, nationality, culture, and diaspora as unstable categories of representation.

Translating and interpreting --- Canadese letterkunde (Engels) --- Vrouwelijke auteurs --- Self-translation --- Migratie --- Minderheden in de literatuur --- Bilingualism --- Autobiography --- Women immigrants --- Identity (Psychology) --- Canadian prose literature (English) --- Prose canadienne-anglaise --- Prose américaine --- Immigrantes --- Écrits de femmes autobiographiques --- Traduction --- Social aspects. --- Canada --- geschiedenis en kritiek --- Verengide Staten --- Psychological aspects. --- Women authors --- History and criticism. --- Biography --- Minority authors --- Auteurs issus de minorités --- Histoire et critique. --- Auteurs issus des minorités --- Biographies --- Philosophie. --- Canadese letterkunde (Engels). --- Vrouwelijke auteurs. --- Self-translation. --- Minderheden in de literatuur. --- Identity (Psychology). --- geschiedenis en kritiek. --- American prose literature --- Autobiographies --- Egodocuments --- Memoirs --- Biography as a literary form --- Immigrant women --- Immigrants --- American literature --- Canadian prose literature --- Philosophy. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Geschiedenis en kritiek. --- Histoire et critique --- Littérature --- Bilinguisme --- Autobiographie --- Écrits d'immigrés canadiens --- Écrits d'immigrés --- Identité (psychologie) --- Littérature canadienne de langue anglaise --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique --- Femmes écrivains --- États-Unis --- Auteurs appartenant à des minorités --- Philosophie