UNI 320 Essay Resources

UNI 320 Essay Resources

Postcolonial Studies (General)

Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, ed. Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, Columbia Univ. Pr., 1994.

A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz, Blackwell, 1998.

Cultural Imperialism: An Introduction, John Tomlinson, Pinter, 1991.

Key Concepts in Post-Colonial Literature, B. Ashcroft, et al.,1997.

Postcolonial Discourse and Changing Cultural Contexts: Theory and Criticism, ed. Gita Rajan and Radhika Mohahram, Greenwood Pr., 1995.

Postcolonialism: Critical Concepts in Literary and Cultural Studies, ed. Diana Brydon, Routledge, 2000.

The Post-Colonial Studies Reader, ed. B. Ashcroft, et al.,Routledge,

Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction, Leela Gandhi,Columbia U.P., 1998.

Postcolonial Theory and Criticism, ed. Laura Chrisman and Benit

Berry, Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2000.

See also the journal, Interventions: the International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. V. 1 (1999)

Postcolonial Studies in a Canadian Context:

Is Canada Postcolonial?. Ed. Laura Moss.

Unhomely States: Theorizing English-Canadian Postcolonialism. Ed. Cynthia Sugars

Home-Work: Ed. Cynthia Sugars

Literary Pluralities Ed. Christl Verduyn

Special issue of Essays on Canadian Writing on Postcolonialism 56 (1995)

First Nations

Acoose, Janice, Misko-K Isik Awihkw E (Red Sky Woman). Iskwewak--Kah Ki Yaw Ni Wahkomakanak: Neither Indian Princess Nor Easy Squaws

Fox, Trish, ed. Voices Under One Sky: Contemporary Native Literature

Give Back: First Nations Perspectives on Cultural Practice

King, Thomas, Cheryl Calver and Helen Hoy, eds. The Native in Literature (1987)

Eigenbrod, Renate and Jo-Ann Episkenew (Eds.). Creating community: a roundtable on Canadian aboriginal literature. Penticton, B.C.: Theytus Books, 2002.

Gedalof, Robin. An annotated bibliography of Canadian Inuit literature.[Ottawa]: Indian and Northern Affairs Canada, 1979

Grant, Agnes (Ed.). Our bit of truth: an anthology of Canadian native writing. Winnipeg: Pemmican Publications, c1990.

Hulan, Rénee. Northern experience and the myths of Canadian culture. Montréal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002.

Maki, Joel T. (Ed.). Steal my rage: new native voices. Vancouver: Douglas & McIntyre, 1995.

McGrath, Robin. Canadian Inuit literature: the development of a tradition. Ottawa: National Museum of Man, National Museums of Canada, 1984.

Moses, Daniel David & Goldie, Terry (Eds.). An Anthology of Canadian native literature in English. 2nd ed. Toronto: Oxford University Press, c1998.

Petrone, Penny. Native literature in Canada: from the oral tradition to the present. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1990.

Skins : contemporary indigenous writing. Compiled by Kateri Akiwenzie-Damm and Josie Douglas. Wiarton, Ont. Kegedonce Press, 2000

Writing the circle : native women of Western Canada, an anthology. Compiled and edited by Jeanne Perreault and Sylvia Vance ; with a preface by Emma LaRocque. Edmonton: NeWest Pub., 1990.

King, Thomas (Ed.). All my relations : an anthology of contemporary Canadian native fiction. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992, c1990.

Francis, Daniel. The imaginary Indian : the image of the Indian in Canadian culture. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, c1992.

LaRocque, Emma Three conventional approaches to native people in society and in literature. [Regina]: Saskatchewan Library Association, [c1984]

Looking at the words of our people: first nations analysis of literature. Collected by Jeannette Armstrong. Penticton, B.C.: Theytus Books, 1993

Native North America: critical and cultural perspectives : essays. By Patricia Monture Angus ... [et al.]; edited by Renee Hulan. Toronto: ECW Press, c1999

New, W.H. (Ed.). Native writers and Canadian writing : Canadian literature special issue. Vancouver: UBC Press, c1990.

Ruffo, Armand Garnet Ruffo (Ed.). (Ad)dressing our words: aboriginal perspectives on aboriginal literatures Penticton, B.C.: Theytus Books, 2001.

Race & Ethnicity in Canada

Brand, Dionne. Bread Out of Stone (1994): "Whose Gaze and Who Speaks for Whom," "Notes for Writing Thru Race"

Clarke, George Elliott. Odysseys Home: Mapping African-CanadianLiterature (2002):

Kamboureli, Smaro. Scandalous Bodies: Diasporic Literature in English Canada (2000):

Mukherjee, Arun. Oppositional Aesthetics (1994)

Philip, Marlene Nourbese. Frontiers: Essays and Writings on Racism And Culture (1988):

Pivato, Joseph, ed. Contrasts: Comparative Essays on Italian Canadian

Writing (1985)

Vassanji, M.G., ed. A Meeting of Streams: South Asian Canadian Literature (1985)

Walcott, Rinaldo. Black Like Who? Writing, Black, Canada (1997)

Primary Sources:

Literature:

Look at: Smaro Kamboureli, Making a Difference: Canadian Multicultural Literature

Joy Kogawa, Kerri Sakamoto, Michael Ondaatje, Shyam Salvadurai, Fred Wah, Dionne Brand, Nourbese Philip, Shani Mootoo, Rohinton Mistry, Sky Lee, George Elliot Clarke, Neil Bissoondath, M.G. Vassanji, Makeda Silvera, Yasmin Lahda

Look at: Terry Goldie and Dabiel David Moses, An Anthology of Native Canadian Literature in English

Thompson Highway, Monique Mojica, Louise Halfe, Gregory Scofield, Tom King, Maria Campbell, Lee Maracle, Eden Robinson

Film:

Films by Loretta Todd: Forgotten warriors: the story of Canada's aboriginal war veterans; Kainayssini imanistaisiwa: the people go on; Hands of history;The Learning path

My name is Kahentiiosta and Kanehsatake: 270 years of resistance by Alanis Obomsawin.

Films by Atom Egoyan, Mina Shum, Deepa Mehta, Clement Virgo

Discordia

Websites:

(Museum of Civilization); (Canadian War Museum); (Museum of Anthropology, Vancouver)