Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vi
3. The Nation and Its Literature(s) Representing People, Representing a People viii
4. 1 Reticent Nations: Governor General’s Award–Winning Fiction and the Representation of Canada 1
5. 2 Cultural Memory, National Identity: The Changing Paradigms of Acadian Literature 21
6. 3 Literary Resistance: Situating a Métis National Literature 43
7. 4 Intersections of Nationhood, Multiculturalism, and Globalization in South Asian Canadian Fiction: A Study of Anita Rau Badami’s Can You Hear the Nightbird Call? 65
8. 5 Canadian Literature in Heritage Languages and the Politics of Canon Formation 89
9. 6 “No Nation Now but the Imagination” No Caribbean Nation without the Dutch Caribbean 109
10. 7 Rediscovering the Republic: The Work of Joan Daniel Bezsonoff 129
11. 8 A Multinational Narrative in a Case Study of Translating an Eastern Christian Play 147
12. 9 Nigeria’s Other Civil War: Ken Saro-Wiwa and Ogoni Nationalism 167
13. 10 “Write Only the Truth” (Re)contesting the Nigerian Nation in Chimeka Garricks’s Tomorrow Died Yesterday and Helon Habila’s Oil on Water 185
14. Contributors 203