The book reviews the theories of “writing the body” propagated by French feminists such as Hélène Cixous, Luce Irigaray and Julia Kristeva and proceeds to close textual analyses of the various forms in which the theories find expression in a broad spectrum of writers ranging......
The volume contains essays on various as-pects of Canadian literature, the poems of Irving Layton, the plays of Robertson Davies, the autobiographies of Claire Martin and Sharan-Jeet Shan, the literary criticism of George Whalley, the novels of Michael Ondaatje, Mordecai......
The present book examines the thematic concerns of Canada’s women dramatists and establishes fundamental similarities between the two major movements that have moulded much of modern Canadian literature—Nationalism and Feminism. The analysis facilitates an understanding of the......
Contemporary Canadian literature has re-ceived a worldwide response. The book of-fers detailed commentaries on the major Ca-nadian texts and authors—a book that really helps to understand and appreciate Canadian literature.
Rana Bose is an intellectual dissenter. All his plays highlight the theme of protest, not spe-cific injustices or individual incidents of suffering so much as the systemic shortcomings that give rise to and perpetuate an unjust society. His plays have a Canadian setting but their......
The book explores the heritage of Indian thought and the image of India depicted in Canadian literature. Writers like Uma Para-meswaran, Rohiton Mistry, Anita Rau Bada-mi and Shauna Singh Baldwin have con-structed an image of India in their works as they......
The four plays included in this volume show the evolution of Rahul Varma’s art and his commitment to challenging the inequities imposed on new immigrants in Canada.
The very notion of World Literature seems to be a fractured one as it privileges only a particular section of World Literature, mainly from Western Europe and USA. In other words, the rest of the literatures emanating from developing and the postcolonial countries are often......
In the recent years, there has been a growing interest in the study of Canada in general and Canadian literature and social sciences in particular. The present volume, comprising critical responses, amply testifies that present-day Canadian writing has acquired......
Immigrant literature, native writing and cross-cultural studies are the upcoming areas of contemporary Canadian writing and these truly represent the face of multicultural Canada. The rich diversity has similarity with literary and cultural scenario in India.......
