Floating the Borders: New Contexts in Canadian Criticism

Book Description
In the past three decades Canadian writers of a diversity of backgrounds have contributed to the body of works that is designated "Canadian Literature," challenging the traditional understanding of that term, its conventions, and its boundaries. Critics of a similar diversity have appeared to study and explain these works and to establish them in the minds of the public and in the halls of academia. The ten essays and fifteen book reviews consider in detail the works of Rohinton Mistry, Dionne Brand, Austin Clarke, M G Vassanji, Shyam Selvadurai, Josef Skvorecki and many others.

About the Author
Nurjehan Aziz (editor)was born in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, studied in Iran and the United States and immigrated to Canada in 1980. She is a cofounder of The Toronto South Asian Review, now The Toronto Review, of which she is an editorial board member. She is the publisher at TSAR Publications.


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In the past three decades Canadian writers of a diversity of backgrounds have contributed to the body of works that is designated "Canadian Literature," challenging the traditional understanding of that term, its conventions, and its boundaries. Critics of a similar diversity have appeared to study and explain these works and to establish them in the minds of the public and in the halls of academia.


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