Canadian Literature and Poetry in English

A comprehensive, authoritative guide to many different genres, topics, and aspects of Canadian literary history, including diasporic literatures and Asian-Canadian literatures.

PR9180.2 .O95 2016
Stacks

A complete English-language history of Canadian writing in English and French from its beginnings, with an emphasis on literary, poetic, and dramatic works published since the 1960s. It analyzes social and cultural changes in Canada during the postwar period (and their influence on literature) and the emergence of multicultural writing.

PR9184.6 .C26 2009
Stacks

A critical study of Canadian literature, which examines the role of ethnicity, race, colonization and other factors in the development of Canadian writing.

Composed of five parts: immigrant communities, English Canada, French Canada, First-Nations communities, and Inuit communities.

Describes writing affected by the process of colonization, including Canadian literature: individual writers, national literary developments, and major genres that provide a cross-cultural view.

PR9080 .A52 E6 2005
Reference

An older book (published in 1990), but it remains an excellent resource for locating poetry, fiction, and drama authored by foreign-born authors residing in Canada.

Poems by a number of well-known writers as well as fresh new poetic voices, forming an eloquent and fiery portrait of the Chinese-Canadian experience: Fred Wah, Rita Wong, Jim Wong-Chu, Kam Sein Yee, Paul Yee and others.

The first anthology of thirteen short fiction pieces written and translated by Chinese-Canadian writers during the last two decades, each of which depicts the contemporary lives of new Chinese immigrants to Canada, and illustrates newcomers’ perspectives of multicultural Canada.

Investigates the shifting currents of citizenship, globalization, and cultural practices facing Asian Canadians today through the connections of place and identity that have been forged through our developing national literature.

An exploration of literature, plays, and film that reveals how young Asian Americans and Asian Canadians have struggled with the ethos of self-sacrifice preached by their parents.