Author: Uma Parameswaran
Publisher: East West Books
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 296
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8186852107
Description
There has been a south-Asian presence in Canada for almost a century. Especially in the last thirty years, a large number of people from India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have immigrated into Canada either directly or indirectly via Britain and its erstwhile colonies – the Caribbean, Fiji, East Africa, etc.
Contents
Preface
Essays and Papers
Literature of the Indian Diaspora in Canada: An Overview
Scaling Walls: Linguistic and Cultural Barriers between Writer and Community
Metaphors for Racism with a Focus on South-Asian- Canadian Literature
Voice Appropriation and Cultural Misappropriation: New Facets in Canada’s Multiculturalism
India’s Street Theatre in Delhi and Montreal (co-author: Vasanti Ram)
Rana Bose and Montreal Serai
Teesri Duniya: Rahul Varma and the Indo-Canadian, Theatre of Protest
The Singing Metaphor: Poetry of Rienzi Crusz
Writing between the Lines of the Bible: Rina Singha’s Delineation of Four Biblical Women in Yeshu Katha
Some Notes on Balachandra Rajan
Fictive Strategies in Reshard Gool’s The Nemesis Casket: Canada’s Nemesis and/or Reader’s Basket Case
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The Indo-Fijian Experience
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