South Asian Canadian Literature - A Centennial Journey Towards Settlement and Citizenship

This book presents the first sustained critical reading of South Asian Canadian literatures within the context of what is now more than a century of South Asian Canadian settlement, breaking new ground in its emphasis on the diverse, multigenerational histories of South Asian Canadians within Canada itself.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. A Centennial Journey: the `Komagata Maru Incident¿ as Revisionist Historiography 3. The Poetics and Politics of Snow: the Post-60s Immigration Boom and the `Canadian Dream¿ Deferred 4. Refugees at Risk and `Risky¿ Refugees: Homeland Security and Sri Lankan Refugeehood in a Pre- and Post- 9/11 Era 5. Pan-Continental Cartographies: The `Hemispheric Thinking¿ of the Indo-Caribbean Double Diaspora 6. South Asian Canadian Muslims: (Un-)Reasonable Accommodations to Contested and Contesting Citizens 7. Holding Court Through Literary Activism: Social Injustice as Individual and Collective Affliction

About the author

Mariam Pirbhai is Associate Professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.

Summary

This book presents the first sustained critical reading of South Asian Canadian literatures within the context of what is now more than a century of South Asian Canadian settlement, breaking new ground in its emphasis on the diverse, multigenerational histories of South Asian Canadians within Canada itself.

Product details

• Authors: Mariam Pirbhai, Mariam (Wilfrid Laurier University Pirbhai
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9780815359760
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-5976-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Series: Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series; Routledge Contemporary South Asia Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories