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Making a Difference is an anthology of Canadian poetry and fiction, in English, by writers whose ethnic and/or racial origins fall outside of what is commonly seen as the mainstream Anglo-Celtic tradition. The intention of this anthology is to celebrate what we have come to call ethnic minority literature in Canada. Recent institutional, social, and political changes in Canada's cultural climate have made it possible for Canadian ethnic writing to receive the critical and popular attention that it deserves. In the last few years, some of Canada's most prestigious literary awards have been won by such authors as Rohinton Mistry, Shyam Selvadurai, M.G. Vassanji, Nino Ricci, Sky Lee, Joy Kogawa and Michael Ondaatje. Evelyn Lau, Austin Clarke, Marlene Nourbese, Claire Harris, Antonio D'Alfonso, Kristjana Gunnars, and George Elliot Clarke are also authors who have won critical acclaim and media attention in the past few years. Making a Difference is the first comprehensive anthology of ethnic writing in Canada. Its wide scope demonstrates that there is a long and important tradition of ethnic writing whose diversity and high quality warrant national attention and study.

Table of Contents:
FREDERICK PHILIP GROVE 1879-1948; The First Day of An Immigrant; LAURA GOODMAN SALVERSON 1890-1970; The Coming of Thor (from The Viking Heart); RACHEL KORN 1898-1982; The Words of My Alefbeyz; A.M. KLEIN 1909-1972; Autobiographical; Doctor Drummond; GEORGE FALUDI 1910; Goodbye, My America; VERA LYSENKO 1910-1975; The Fairy Tale Spinners (from Yellow Boots); IRVING LAYTON 1912; Whom I Write For; The Search; Terrorists; At the Belsen Memorial; HELEN WEINZWEIG 1915; L'Envoi; JOSEPH SKVORECKY 1924; The Army Creativity Context; RIENZI CRUSZ 1925; Sitting Alone in the Happy Hour Cafe; From Shovel to Self-propelled Snow Blower: The Immigrant's Progress; In the Idiom of the Sun; In the Shadow of the Tiger (3); A Door Ajar; ROY KIYOOKA 1926-1994; from TransCanada Letters; since you and i forsook the rites of message; since i wrote the night sky down; the pear tree a siamese cat name cooper and me; dear lesbia; SAAD ELKHADEM 1932; Nobody Complained; AUSTIN CLARKE 1934; Doing Right; RUDY WIEBE 1934; A Night at Fort Pitt; GEORGE JONAS 1935; Wakes up next morning to the strains of O Canada on the radio; In Any City; Once More; From The Book of Al-Maari; JOY KOGAWA 1935; from Obasan; CLAIRE HARRIS 1937; Black Sisyphus; No God Waits on Incense; from Drawing Down a Daughter; BILL SCHERMBRUCKER 1938; Chameleon; FRED WAH 1939; waiting for saskatchewan; Father/Mother Haibun No.4; from Music at the Heart of Thinking (2,10,50,51,52,55); DAVID ARNASON 1940; The Sunfish; JAMILA ISMAIL 1940; from Scared Texts; BETH BRANT 1941; This Is History; HIMANI BANNERJI 1942; Paki Go Home; death by trivia; Apart-hate; a letter for Iraq; SANDRA BIRDSELL 1942; Flowers for Weddings and Funerals; ARNOLD ITWARU 1942; from Shanti; DAPHNE MARLATT 1942; from Month of Hungry Ghosts; ROY MIKI 1942; the rescue; september 22; in flight, 1/4; membrane translate; ANDREW SUKNASKI 1942; Philip Well; West to Tolstoi, Manitoba (circa 1900); Vasylyna's Retreat; In the beginning was The; Letter to Big Bear; The Faceless Goodbyes; RENATO TRUJILLO 1942; Rain; Hunger; Unsolicited Mail; THOMAS KING 1943; MICHAEL ONDAATJE 1943; from In the Skin of a Lion; CYRIL DABYDEEN 1945; Lady Icarus; Multiculturalism; I am Not; HAROLD SONNY LADOO 1945-73; from No Pain Like This Body; PATRICK FRIESEN 1946; sunday afternoon; bible; evisceration; breaking for light; the forge (the man who licked stones); J.J. STEINFELD 1946; Ida Solomon's Play; MARLENE NOURBESE PHILIP 1947; Blackman Dead; Discourse on the Logic of Language; JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG 1948; History Lesson; Magic Woman; Wind Woman; Indian Woman; KRISTJANA GUNNARS 1948; from The Prowler; FRANK PACI 1948; from Black Madonna; ARMIN WIEBE 1948; Oata, Oata; JIM WONG-CHU 1948; tradition; baptism 1909; curtain of rain; equal opportunity; PIER GIORGIO DI CICCO 1949; Waking up among Writers; Latin Ontario; Symmetrics of Exclusion: Duo-Genesis; MARY DI MICHELE 1949; Life is Theatre or O to Be an Italian in Toronto..; Afterword: Trading in on the American Dream; What is Desire; MARWAN HASSAN 1950; from The Confusion of Stones; CORINNE ALLYSON LEE 1950; Recipe; LEE MARACLE 1950; Bertha; GERRY SHIKATANI 1950; After a Reading of Isan; Bird of Two Forms; The Three Coins; Haiku; M.G. VASSANJI 1950; The London-returned; LILLIAN ALLEN 1951; Nothing But a Hero; With Criminal Intent; JANICE KULYK KEEFER 1952; Nach Unten; DI BRANDT 1952; foreword; when i was five; but what do you think; missionary position (1); missionary position (2); SKY LEE 1952; ROHINTON MISTRY 1952; Swimming Lessons; DANIEL DAVID MOSES 1952; Admonition to An Ice-Skating Child; Paper; The End of the Night; Bearwalk; DIONNE BRAND 1953; hard against the soul I; Blues Spiritual for Mammy Prater; from no language is neutral; ANTONIO D'ALFONSO 1953; Im Sachsenhausen; The Loss of a Culture; The Family; On Being A Wop; MAKEDA SILVERA 1954; Her Head a Village; ARITHA VAN HERK 1954; Of Dykes and Boers and Drowning; NEIL BISSOONDATH 1955; On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows; VEN BEGAMUDRE 1956; Mosaic; YESHIM TERNAR 1956; True Romance with a Sailor; YASMIN LADHA 1958; Beena; NINO RICCI 1959; Going to the Moon; GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE 1960; Look Homeward; Blank Sonnet; The Symposium; King Bee Blues; To Selah; ASHOK MATHUR 1961; Into Skin; IAN IQBAL RASHID 1965; A Pass to India; Another Country; Could Have Danced All Night; Hospital Visit: The Heat Yesterday; SHYAM SELVADURAI 1965; from Funny Boy; HIROMI GOTO 1966; Night; ZAFFI GOUSOPOULOS 1967; Four Greek Men; EVELYN LAU 1970; Marriage; NICE RODRIGUEZ; Big Nipple of the North


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  • ISBN-13: 9780195410785
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press, Canada
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0195410785
  • Publisher Date: 01 Mar 1996
  • Binding: Paperback


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