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Adjacencies

Adjacencies

Minority Writings in Canada

By Lianne Moyes Domenic Beneventi

Canada has often been described as a patchwork of cultural and linguistic communities that continually intersect with one another in interesting and provocative ways. This collection of essays provides a forum in which ethnicity and literature are explored form a broad range of critical perspectives including feminism, psychoanalysis, cinema, cultural studies, history, gender and native studies. They do so by addressing the many ways in which minority writers not only create a sense of community and ethnic specificity but also open avenues of discourse to adjacent communities. This collection discusses and debates the issues pertinent to contemporary ethnic/minority studies in Canada.

These essays, written by scholars from across the country, "engage directly with the ambiguities and difficulties associated with the term 'minority writing'" - Sherry Simon. They do so by addressing the many ways in which minority writers not only create a sense of community and ethnic specificity but also open avenues of discourse to adjacent communities.

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Guernica Editions (Essential Essays Series)

9781550711677

200 pages |

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Lianne Moyes is an Associate professor at Université de Montréal. She teaches Twentieth-century Canadian writing; relationships between women writers in Canada and Quebec since 1970; Canadian literary theory and criticism; and French feminist theory.

Domenic A. Beneventi is postdoctoral researcher at CELAT-UQAM. He completed a SSHRC postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Literature and Communications at the Université de Sherbrooke (2006-2008). He received his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at the Université de Montréal in 2005. His research interests and recent publications focus on urban writing and representation of poverty and homelessness.