Publisher's Synopsis
The essays in this volume continue the examination, begun in CONFLUENCES 1 and continued in CONFLUENCES 2, of the exciting new writing that has emerged in Canada in the past few decades. Employing a variety of approaches and addressing the many concerns engaging their author-subjects--memory, history, and concentric identities; the subordination of women; and racism--this new body of writing collectively redefines and challenges the traditional idea of Canadian Literature.
Included in this volume are: "Other Languages in National Literatures: W.H. Hudson's English Argentina and Pablo Urbanyi's Argentine Canada."--Hugh Hazelton "Racial Re/Profiling: the plays of Andrew Moodie."--Leslie Sanders "Searching for the Ancestral Past in the Caribbean: Dannabang Kuwabong's Caribbean Blues & Love's Genealogy and Voices from Kibuli Country."--Horace Goddard "Haunting the Human: M. NourbeSe Philip's Poetics of Un"--Kate Siklosi "Performing Male Monstrosity or Failed Masculinities? Shani Mootoo's Literary Oeuvre"--Juan M Salomé Villarini "Pamela Mordecai and Canadian Literary Transcultural Eschatology"--Dannabang KuwabongLiterary Nonfiction.
