This volume brings together essays which suggest that the relationship between Canada and Europe is a two-way process, as historically the traffic between them has been: either may have something to offer the other. Europe too acknowledges situations today in which "difference" and "community" are hard terms to reconcile. "Difference" refers to gender, sexuality, race, nationality, or language. "Community" is the collective understanding which must continually be renegotiated and reconstructed among these factors. The Canadian-European connection is one in which it seems especially appropriate to explore such circumstances. The topics covered include pioneer women's writing, transcultural women's fiction, canonical taxonomy of the contemporary novel, the city poem in Confederate Canada, poetry of the Great War, various ethno-cultural perspectives (Jewish, South Asian, Italian; Native reappropriations; Quebec cinema), literature and the media, and small-press publishing. Some of the authors treated: Sandra Birdsell, Nicole Brossard, Jack Hodgins, Henry Kreisel, Robert Kroetsch, Janice Kulyk Keefer, Archibald Lampman, Malcolm Lowry, Lesley Lum, Daphne Marlatt, Susanna Moodie, Bharati Mukherjee, Alice Munro, Frank Paci, and Susan Swan.
Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. Illustrations. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES. Frank DAVEY: The Canadas of Anglophone-Canadian Fiction 1967-90. Richard COLLINS: The North Atlantic Cultural Triangle. The Bermuda Syndrome? David HUTCHISON: National Culture and National Identity. Literature and the Media. Lynette HUNTER: Alternative Publishing in Canada. ETHNICITY/MULTICULTURALISM: Janice KULYK KEEFER: From Dialogue to Polylogue. Canadian Transcultural Writing During the Deluge. Coral Ann HOWELLS: "Home Ground/Foreign Territory". Transculturalism in Contemporary Canadian. Women's Short Stories in English. Wolfgang KLOOSS: Henry Kreisel's "The Almost Meeting". An Intertextual Reading of Jewish Writing in the Canadian West. Susan SPEAREY: Homelands and Habitations in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee. Leon LITVACK: The Weight of Cultural Baggage. Frank Paci and the Italian-Canadian Experience. Ian LOCKERBIE: The Ethnic Other in Quebec Cinema. Hartmut LUTZ: Robbed Graves, Whiteshamans, and Stolen Stories. (Re-?)Appropriations of Native Cultures. GENDER. Barbara KORTE: Gentle-Women in the Wilderness. Self-Images of British-Canadian Pioneer Women. Kit STEAD: The Twinkling of an "I". Subjectivity and Language in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth. Marion WYNNE-DAVIES: "Just Scribbling". FICTION/THEORY in Nicole Brossard's Mauve Desert and Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic. Jill LEBIHAN: Freaks and Others. The Biggest Modern Women and the World. REPRESENTATIONS OF CRISIS AND RENEWAL. Norbert H. PLATZ: Imaging the City in Confederation Poetry. Frank K. STANZEL: "In Flanders field the poppies blow". Canada and the Great War. Peter EASINGWOOD: The Appeal of Failure. Lewis's Self Condemned and Lowry's October Ferry to Gabriola. Martin KUESTER: Traces of Europe in Robert Kroetsch's Fiction, or "I wish I'd had a crack at that Henry the Eighth". Waldemar ZACHARASIEWICZ: Experienced Travellers in Jack Hodgins's Recent Fiction. Exploration of Inner Landscapes.
Contents: Preface. Acknowledgements. Illustrations. GENERAL PERSPECTIVES. Frank DAVEY: The Canadas of Anglophone-Canadian Fiction 1967-90. Richard COLLINS: The North Atlantic Cultural Triangle. The Bermuda Syndrome? David HUTCHISON: National Culture and National Identity. Literature and the Media. Lynette HUNTER: Alternative Publishing in Canada. ETHNICITY/MULTICULTURALISM: Janice KULYK KEEFER: From Dialogue to Polylogue. Canadian Transcultural Writing During the Deluge. Coral Ann HOWELLS: "Home Ground/Foreign Territory". Transculturalism in Contemporary Canadian. Women's Short Stories in English. Wolfgang KLOOSS: Henry Kreisel's "The Almost Meeting". An Intertextual Reading of Jewish Writing in the Canadian West. Susan SPEAREY: Homelands and Habitations in the Fiction of Bharati Mukherjee. Leon LITVACK: The Weight of Cultural Baggage. Frank Paci and the Italian-Canadian Experience. Ian LOCKERBIE: The Ethnic Other in Quebec Cinema. Hartmut LUTZ: Robbed Graves, Whiteshamans, and Stolen Stories. (Re-?)Appropriations of Native Cultures. GENDER. Barbara KORTE: Gentle-Women in the Wilderness. Self-Images of British-Canadian Pioneer Women. Kit STEAD: The Twinkling of an "I". Subjectivity and Language in Alice Munro's Friend of My Youth. Marion WYNNE-DAVIES: "Just Scribbling". FICTION/THEORY in Nicole Brossard's Mauve Desert and Daphne Marlatt's Ana Historic. Jill LEBIHAN: Freaks and Others. The Biggest Modern Women and the World. REPRESENTATIONS OF CRISIS AND RENEWAL. Norbert H. PLATZ: Imaging the City in Confederation Poetry. Frank K. STANZEL: "In Flanders field the poppies blow". Canada and the Great War. Peter EASINGWOOD: The Appeal of Failure. Lewis's Self Condemned and Lowry's October Ferry to Gabriola. Martin KUESTER: Traces of Europe in Robert Kroetsch's Fiction, or "I wish I'd had a crack at that Henry the Eighth". Waldemar ZACHARASIEWICZ: Experienced Travellers in Jack Hodgins's Recent Fiction. Exploration of Inner Landscapes.