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Price: $73.95

Format:
Paperback 544 pp.
6" x 9"

ISBN-10:
0195422880

ISBN-13:
9780195422887

Copyright Year:
2007

Imprint: OUP Canada

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Making a Difference

Canadian Multicultural Literature, Second Edition

Edited by Smaro Kamboureli

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.

Readership : Students in courses in Canadian literature, multicultural Canadian literature, found in the introductory level and second or third-year levels.

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

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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.

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Special Features

Features a wide range of authors representing different cultural heritages as well as a balance of male and female writers.
Brings established Canadian authors together with those who are frequently overlooked from similar anthologies.
Biocritical introductions allow insight into each author's life and work.