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Title Cultural identities in Canadian literature = Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne / Bénédicte Mauguière, editor
Published New York : Peter Lang, [1998]
©1998

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Description viii, 230 pages ; 23 cm
Contents Introduction / Benedicte Mauguiere -- Old World Forms, New World Settings: The Emergence of Ukrainian-Canadian Plays on North American Themes / Jars Balan -- Ethnic Dominance and Difference: The Post-Colonial Condition in Margaret Laurence's The Stone Angel, A Jest of God, and The Diviners / Karin E. Beeler -- The Gaelic Middle Passage to Canada / Seamus Ceallaigh -- Towards a Conservative Modernity: Cultural Nationalism in Contemporary Acadian and Africadian Poetry / George Elliott Clarke -- Marie Laberge's Feminist Existentialism / Roseanna Lewis Dufault -- Identity, the State, and Masculinity: The Representation of the Male Subject in Michael Ignatieff's The Russian Album / Paul Hjartarson
Summary "This collection of essays deals with the multiple aspects of cultural identities in literature from a postcolonial perspective. The questions raised are at the crossroads of Canadian cultural identity as they address gender, language, race, nationalism, and ethnicity, making this book a valuable reference for researchers, scholars, and students who work in the expanding fields of cultural studies, minority or gender studies, and Canadian studies."--Jacket
Notes Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Text in English and French
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Subject Canadian literature -- Canada -- History and criticism.
Canadian literature -- History and criticism.
Culture in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Cultural pluralism in literature.
French-Canadian literature -- History and criticism.
French-Canadian literature -- Canada -- History and criticism.
Language and culture -- Canada.
Group identity in literature.
Literature and anthropology -- Canada.
Language and culture.
Literature and anthropology.
Multiculturalism in literature.
Author Mauguière, Bénédicte, 1958-
LC no. 97010690
ISBN 0820433896 (alk. paper)
Other Titles Identités culturelles dans la littérature canadienne