Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature

The most comprehensive anthology in its field, the second edition of Making a Difference builds on the solid literary foundation established in the original landmark volume. Featuring a blend of Canadian poetry and short fiction, this anthology examines on cultural differences through the work of 70 writers representing a diverse range of Native and ethnic backgrounds. The result is a rich survey that celebrates the unique cultural heritage of Canadian literature and the multiplicity of this country's cultural spectrum.For this second edition, Making a Difference editor Smaro Kamboureli thoroughly reconsidered the table of contents and introduced over thirty-five authors, many of them seldom anthologized elsewhere, to the already extensive collection of established writers. These additions bring the collection up to date. By combining established classics with writings that seldom appear in similar anthologies, this unique collection stands as the most engaging and comprehensive in the market.

Table of Contents:
Introduction Fugitive and Non-Fugitive Slave Narratives Sophia Pooley Reverend Alexander Hemsley Francis Henderson Mrs Francis Henderson Pauline Johnson A Squamish Legend of Napoleon Frederick Philip Grove The First Day of an Immigrant A.M. Klein Autobiographical Doctor Drummond Irving Layton Whom I Write For The Search Eli Mandel estevan, 1934 the return signs Rienzi Crusz Civilization Interpreting the Clothesline Roots Roy Kiyooka We Asian North Americanos: An unhistorical 'take' on growing up yellow in a white world Austin Clarke When He Was Free and Young and He Used To Wear Silks Rudy Wiebe A Night in Fort Pitt or (if you prefer) The Only Perfect Communists in the World Joy Kogawa from Obasan Claire Harris Black Sisyphus No God Waits on Incense Wayson Choy from Paper Shadows: A Chinatown Childhood Fred Wah Waiting for saskatchewan Father/Mother Haibun #4 from Music at the Heart of Thinking David Arnason The Sunfish Beth Brant This is History Andrew Suknaski Philip Well West to Tolstoi, Manitoba (circa 1900) Vasylyna's Retreat In the Beginning was The Letter to Big Bear The Faceless Goodbyes Daphne Marlatt from Month of Hungry Ghosts Roy Miki make it new material recovery material recovery two kiyooka material recovery three fool's scold Thomas King The One About Coyote Going West Michael Ondaatje from In The Skin of a Lion Patrick Friesen sunday afternoon bible evisceration J.J. Steinfeld Ida Solomon's Play Marlene Nourbese Philip Discourse on The Logic of Language Sadhu Binning The Symptoms To Mother Teresa H. Nigel Thomas The Village Ram Jeannette Armstrong History Lesson Indian Woman Kristjana Gunnars Mass and a Dance Mary Di Michele Life Is Theatre Afterword: Trading in on The American Dream Lee Maracle Bertha Gerry Shikatani from 'The Generalife Gardens, Alhambra, Granada, 1991' M.G. Vassanji The London-Returned Tomson Highway My Canada Alootook Ipellie Love Triangle Janice Kulyk Keefer Nach Unten Di Brandt Foreword Zone: 'le Détroit' Sky Lee from Disappearing Moon Cafe Prologue: Search for Bones Rodhinton Mistry Swimming Lessons Dionne Brand from No Language Is Neutral from Land to Light On Antonio D'Alfonso Im Sachsenhausen The Loss of a Culture The Family On Being a Wop Aritha Van Herk Of Dykes and Boers and Drowning Makeda Silvera Her Head a Village Neil Bissoondath from Selling Illusions: The Cult of Multiculturalism in Canada The Uses of Ethnicity Marilyn Dumont Letter to Sir John A. MacDonald Still Unsaved Soul The Devil's Language Armand Garnet Ruffo Poem for Duncan Campbell Scott Power At Geronimo's Grave Detour Ven Begamudre Mosaic Yasmin Ladha Beena Lawrence Hill from Any Known Blood Shani Mootoo For Naan Denudation Nice Rodriguez Big Nipple of The North Nino Rici Going to the Moon George Elliot Clarke Look Homeward, Exile The Symposium Nalo Hopkinson A Habit of Waste Ashok Mathur Into Skin Tess Fragoulis Dear Mr. Bail Mirian Toews A Father's Faith David Odhiambo from dissed/banded Nation Shyam Selvadurai Pigs Can't Fly Warren Cariou from Lake of The Prairies Remembering Clayton Hiromigoto Stinky Girl Gregory Scofield Offering: 1996 from Thunder Through My Veins Ta-Pa-Koo-Me-Way-Win (Making Relations) Phinderdulai basmati brown Larissa lai The Salt Fish Girl Suzette Mayr The Education of Carmen Rita Wong lips shape yangtze, chang jiang, river longing cites of disturbance puzzlinen Tamas Dobozy Four Uncles Richard Van Camp Sky Burial Evelyn Lau Marriage Wayde Compton O Where Heaven Lies Declaration of the Halfrican Nation David Bezmozgis An Animal to the Memory

About the Author :
Smaro Kamboureli is Canada Research Chair in Critical Studies in Canadian Litarature at the School of English and Theatre Studies, University of Guelph. She is also the author of Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada, for which she won the Gabrielle Roy Award for Canadian Criticism.