First published in 2004. This is Volume III of Postcolonialism part of a series of critical
concepts in literary and cultural studies. This edition includes part six on Orientalisms, part …

Canadian National Cinema explores the idea of the nation across Canada's film history,
from early films of colonisation and white settlement such as The Wheatfields of Canada and …

Attempts by writers and intellectuals in former colonies to create unique national cultures are
often thwarted by a context of global modernity, which discourages particularity and …

Settlers are made by conquest, not just immigration. Settlers are kept by a form of the state
that makes a distinction—particularly juridical—between conquerers and conquered, settlers …

This paper explores the shifting, multiple modalities of Britishness, colonialism and
whiteness in a changing social landscape. Set in postcolonial Hong Kong, it draws on …

Winner of the English Book Award, Grand Prix du Livre 2006 de la Ville de Sherbrooke. In
this original and groundbreaking study, Winfried Siemerling examines the complexities of …

“Speaking in the Past Tense participates in an expanding critical dialogue on the writing of
historical fiction, providing a series of reflections on the process from the perspective of …

Cultural Grammars of Nation, Diaspora, and Indigeneity in Canada considers how the terms
of critical debate in literary and cultural studies in Canada have shifted with respect to race …

Arguing that Jewish North American writing is too commonly discussed as part of the
mainstream, neglecting the Jewish aspects of the works, Ravvin places the writing of Bellow …

Gabrielle Roy is one of the best-known figures of Québec literature, yet she spent much of
the first thirty years of her life studying, working, and living in English. For Roy, as a member …