Floating the Borders: New Contexts in Canadian Literature

by Nurjehan Aziz (Editor)

Literary Criticism. Multicultural Studies. In the past three decades, Canadian writers of a diversity of backgrounds have challenged the traditional understanding of the term Canadian Literature, its conventions and its boundaries. Critics of a similar diversity have come together in this volume to provide the contexts for some of the best new Canadian writing being done today. Rohinton Mistry, Cyril Dabydeen, Dionne Brand, Cecil Foster, M G Vassanji, Shani Mootoo, Josef Skvorecky, Neil Bissoondath, Rienzi Crusz, Lawrence Hill, Andre Alexis, Pier de Giorgio Cicco, Mary di Michele, Fred Wah, Evelyn Lau, and others are included. The end of this volume contains incisive reviews of books.

279 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Nurjehan Aziz was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, studied in Iran and the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1980. She is a co-founder of The Toronto South Asian Review, now The Toronto Review, of which she is an editorial board member. She is the publisher at TSAR Publications.