TY - BOOK ID - 135191580 TI - Tricks with a Glass : Writing Ethnicity in Canada AU - Baena, Rosalía AU - Davis, Rocío G. PY - 2000 SN - 9789004454811 9789042012134 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Canadian literature KW - Minority authors KW - History and criticism UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135191580 AB - 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. ER -