News from the Front chronicles the experiences of narrator/protagonist Griffin Keeping, a former soldier and veteran of the Afghanistan War, following his return home to Newfoundland after his release from active duty. Keeping suffers from a fractured psyche as a result of Post …
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This thesis addresses four Canadian immigrant English-language prose writers in order to identify commonalities and differences in their literary representations of the immigrant experience over time. While origin and ethnicity factored in the selection of writers so as to ensur…
This dissertation critiques national English-Canadian newspaper representations of Muslims, Arabs and South Asians in the context of national narratives about Canada. I explore these tensions in the context of Canadian Literary Studies as a cultural field, exploring the gap prod…
This dissertation examines the representation of diasporic identity and consciousness in Arab diasporic narratives from Canada and the United States. With a focus on the genre of fiction, the primary works under consideration are contemporary novels by Arab Canadian and Arab Ame…
The Methodist Book and Publishing House was a complex organization engaged in the publication of a denominational newspaper, commercial printing, retail and wholesale bookselling, periodical publication, and book publishing. Through the use of archival and printed matter, this t…
This thesis examines the process of creating intercultural theatre and the transfer of theatre from Africa to Canada. I use Patrice Pavis' “hourglass of cultures” as a tool to examine that process, and integrate theories of hybridity, third space, and translation into the analys…
The trope of the woman's body as metaphor for the nation is one that is replayed throughout both colonial and postcolonial literatures dealing with political, ethnic or religious battles, indeed almost any conflict that involves the violent encounter of two or more defined group…
Ojibway writer Ruby Slipperjack and Ibo writer Buchi Emecheta are both marginalized writers crafting autobiographical fiction while living in exile from their homes of origin. This thesis discusses their individual works as well as some of the new insights and alternative critic…
Occupied Territories, wrestles with issues of war and occupation, control and rebellion—among races, nations and genders—and asks us not to shut down to one another, despite the spoilers on both sides. Together, and individually, the three principal women of this novel recognize…
The last thirty years have been a time of considerable change in both Canadian religious life and in Canadian women's lives, as well as in the interrelationships between the two. While Canadian society has undergone a process of increasing secularization, Canadian women have bee…
This thesis demonstrates how Ann-Marie MacDonald's texts include the voices of groups who have been marginalized by traditional western literature and culture, both by bringing them into chorus with mainstream traditions and by subverting oppressive constructs that inform our cu…
Writing as a land to inhabit and/or a place of estrangement represents an essential territory for the exiled woman: a means of finding with/in words the necessary sources for her life to be regenerated. For Nourbese Philip and Nadine Ltaif, two migrant women, writing seems to of…
This study's objective is to follow the development and maturation of three characters in contemporary literature in order to gain insight into the process of self-development using Quoyle from The Shipping News by Annie Proulx, Iris Chase Griffen from Margaret Atwood's The Blin…
This thesis examines the details of A. M. Klein's interest in James Joyce, as well as Joyce's effect on Klein's major works. Klein's fascination with Joyce's literary innovations is apparent in almost every aspect of his literary career, and there is evidence to suggest that Kle…
In the present thesis I will analyse the phenomenon of the shaping of identity in African and Canadian postcolonial texts. In the world of the texts, this phenomenon occurs when colonial subjects are caught between tradition and modernity. The African texts that I will discuss a…
This dissertation draws on modern theories of the exotic in order to critique racialized, consumer-oriented representations of Arabs. Such representations often betray an exoticist and neo-colonial discursive pattern in which things Arab figure essentially as an index for a thre…
Examining contemporary debates surrounding cosmopolitanism, the ancient notion of 'world citizenship,' this thesis argues that 'rooted' cosmopolitanism is the most viable reformulation of this concept. 'Rooted' cosmopolitanism posits that while individuals inevitably retain thei…
This study examines the figure of the violent woman in Atwood’s fiction as a productive starting point for the re-evaluation of various socio-cultural debates. Emerging from Atwood’s conviction that art, in its various forms, is often involved in the re-writing of convention, I …
Joe Sacco and Chester Brown are two artists who emerged out of a vibrant tradition of autobiographical comics in the eighties and nineties. This paper argues that Sacco's Palestine and Brown's Louis Riel announce a new way of writing the self rejuvenating the autobiographical ge…