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A Meeting of Streams: South Asian-Canadian Literature

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At no time in history has there been such a massive movement across geographical, political, and cultural barriers as the one we are witnessing in our own time. The South Asian presence in Canada and the West is a result of this movement. It originates predominantly from the countries of South Asia - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka - and those of the Caribbean and East and South Africa. The essays and articles in this volume comprise a concerted and many-sided look at the literature of this group. Several of them are also informative surveys of the important branches of this literature. Altogether they provide the contexts for appreciating it, and understanding it as an esthetic, social, and cultural phenomenon. At the same time they address several fundamental issues, regarding the relationship of this literature both to the traditional and to mainstream languages, literatures, and themes. They probe the past, appraise the present, and throw a glance at the future.

Contributors include:
Brenda Beck, Frank Birbalsingh, Surjeet kalsey, Nuzrat Yar Khan, Arun Mukherjee, Uma Parameswaran, Stella Sandahl, Rajendra Singh, Suwanda Sugunasiri, Ronald Sutherland and MG Vassanji.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Release: January 16, 1998

ISBN 13: 9780920661000

A Meeting of Streams: South Asian-Canadian Literature

0/5 ( ratings)

At no time in history has there been such a massive movement across geographical, political, and cultural barriers as the one we are witnessing in our own time. The South Asian presence in Canada and the West is a result of this movement. It originates predominantly from the countries of South Asia - India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Sri Lanka - and those of the Caribbean and East and South Africa. The essays and articles in this volume comprise a concerted and many-sided look at the literature of this group. Several of them are also informative surveys of the important branches of this literature. Altogether they provide the contexts for appreciating it, and understanding it as an esthetic, social, and cultural phenomenon. At the same time they address several fundamental issues, regarding the relationship of this literature both to the traditional and to mainstream languages, literatures, and themes. They probe the past, appraise the present, and throw a glance at the future.

Contributors include:
Brenda Beck, Frank Birbalsingh, Surjeet kalsey, Nuzrat Yar Khan, Arun Mukherjee, Uma Parameswaran, Stella Sandahl, Rajendra Singh, Suwanda Sugunasiri, Ronald Sutherland and MG Vassanji.

Language: English

Pages: 160

Format: Paperback

Release: January 16, 1998

ISBN 13: 9780920661000

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