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The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in Confluences 1, 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 Indian women; the exploitation of Afro-Caribbean immigrants; the "nowarianism" of Indo-Caribbean Canadians; the legacy of Japanese internment during World War II; historical Black experience and meaningful aesthetics; Chinatown as geography, repository, and inspiration--this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the idea of Canadian Literature.Included in this volume are:"'This dock is my dock': Dionne Brand's Room of Light" --Franca Bernabei"Between (Hi)Story and Space: Wayson Choy's Postmodern Chinatown" --Jason Wang"Landscape and Diasporic Citizenship(s) in Ramabai Espinet's The Swinging Bridge and Nuclear Seasons" --Dannabang Kuwabong"Cecil Foster's Sleep on, Beloved: Reflections on Afro-Caribbean Immigrant Existence in Toronto" --H Nigel Thomas"Dismantled Domestics, Loneliness, and Creative Coping in Rabindranath Maharaj's The Amazing Absorbing Boy" --Shoilee Khan"'The Multinational's Song': M G Vassanji's Work in Canadian Context" --Laura Moss"A Long Journey to Mercy: Joy Kogawa's Gently to Nagasaki" --Irene Sywenky"Gendered Violence and Feminist Interventions in Shauna Singh Baldwin's The Selector of Souls" --Asma Sayed

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Canadian literature --- Emigration and immigration in literature --- Ethnic groups in literature --- Immigrants in literature --- Minorities in literature --- Minority authors --- History and criticism

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