Download or read book Selling Illusions written by Neil Bissoondath and published by Penguin Canada. This book was released on 1994 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since he immigrated to Canada two decades ago, Neil Bissoondath has consistently refused the role of the ethnic, and sought to avoid the burden of hyphenation -- a burden that would label him as an East Indian-Trinidadian-Canadian living in Quebec. Bissoondath argues that the policy of multiculturalism, with its emphasis on the former or ancestral homeland and its insistence that There is more important than Here, discourages the full loyalty of Canada's citizens. Through the 1971 Multiculturalism Act, Canada has sought to order its population into a cultural mosaic of diversity and tolerance. Seeking to preserve the heritage of Canada's many peoples, the policy nevertheless creates unease on many levels, transforming people into political tools and turning historical distinctions into stereotyped commodities. It encourages exoticism, highlighting the differences that divide Canadians rather than the similarities that unite them. Selling Illusions is Neil Bissoondath's personal exploration of a politically motivated public policy with profound private ramifications -- a policy flawed from its inception but implemented with all the political zeal of a true believer.
Download or read book Digging Up the Mountains written by Neil Bissoondath and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 2011-02-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dazzling collection of short stories, originally published in 1985, marks the brilliant debut of Neil Bissoondath, a major voice in Canadian fiction. Focusing on contemporary themes of cultural dislocation, revolution, and the shifting politics of the Third World, the stories resonate with Bissoondath’s compassion for people threatened by circumstances beyond their control.
Download or read book The Unyielding Clamor of the Night written by Neil Bissoondath and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2008-12-08 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mesmerizing novel about the brutal and lasting effects of poverty and violence. Arun, a young man of privileged background, leaves his home in the prosperous north of his Southeast Asian island nation to teach in the devastated south, where a civil war between the military and rebel insurgents profoundly affects daily life. Idealistic and driven by a need to give meaning to his life, Arun relinquishes the trappings of wealth to dedicate himself to improving the lot of the "2 percenters," as the country's southern population is called. Over the course of several months he befriends some of the local people-Jaisaram, the local butcher, and his daughter Anjani, who reads to her father from romance novels; Kumarsingh, a "go-getting" entrepreneur; Seth, an American-trained army captain stationed at the local base; and various pupils. In Omeara, however, nothing is as it seems; everyone has secrets and truth is elusive. At the village school, attendance is meager and irregular. The only students who attend are those who, damaged by the conflict, are incapable of working in the fields. Surrounded by poverty and the constant threat of violence, Arun's optimism is eventually depleted and frustration with educating the village's schoolchildren overwhelms him. When violence finally touches him personally, he is forced to confront basic truths about his friends, his family, his country and, most wrenchingly, himself.
Download or read book Neil Bissoondath written by Frank Birbalsingh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the life and works of Neil Bissoondath, b. 1955.
Download or read book On the Eve of Uncertain Tomorrows written by Neil Bissoondath and published by London : Bloomsbury. This book was released on 1990 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories by the Trinidadian author of a A Casual Brutality. The stories evoke a range of emotions in a comic and compassionate style.
Download or read book A Casual Brutality written by Neil Bissoondath and published by London : Bloomsbury. This book was released on 1988 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel about the quest of one man to comprehend how a national tragedy so cruelly and illogically turned into personal tragedy, while capturing at the same time the laughter and colour of island life as the action moves from Toronto to the Caribbean. By the same author, "Digging Up the Mountains".
Download or read book The Soul of All Great Designs written by Neil Bissoondath and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The secret lives created by a career man and the daughter of Indian immigrants create problems when they meet and have an affair.
Download or read book Doing the Heart Good written by Neil Bissoondath and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marks the end of a seventy-year-old man's independent life. Alistair Mackenzie, widower, father, grandfather, retired professor, lover of Dickens and good sherry is forced to move in with his daughter and her family, bringing with him only a few medals, pajamas that still bear the smell of smoke, and memory, that territory, alien and untrustworthy, unfailingly inhabited by a familiar stranger."--Jacket.
Download or read book Under the Ribs of Death written by John Marlyn and published by New Canadian Library. This book was released on 1990 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the immigrant community of Winnipeg’s North End, Under the Ribs of Death follows the progress of young Sandor Hunyadi as he struggles to cast off his Hungarian background and become a “real Canadian.” Embittered by poverty and social humiliation, Sandor rejects his father’s impractical idealism and devotes himself single-mindedly to becoming a successful businessman. Equipped with a new name and a hardened heart, he is close to realizing his ambition when fortune’s wheel takes an unexpected – and possibly redemptive – turn. Combining social realism and moral parable, Under the Ribs of Death is John Marlyn’s ironic portrayal of the immigrant experience in the years leading up to the Great Depression. As a commentary on the problems of cultural assimilation, this novel is as relevant today as it was when first published in 1957.
Download or read book Breaking Through written by John Borovilos and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall Canada. This book was released on 1990 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short stories, poetry, essasy and articles
Download or read book The Texture of Identity written by Martin Genetsch and published by Tsar Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arguing that globalization is no longer a term defining only international cash flow but also includes the flow and exchange of cultures, this book examines the works of three major Canadian writers of South Asian origin and born in three different parts of the world--MG Vassanji, Neil Bissoondath, and Rohinton Mistry. To demonstrate the complex, textured identities of his authors of choice, Martin Genetsch shows that these and other writers not only negotiate their Canadian identities but also explore themselves in the cultures, histories, and geographical locations they come from. The result is a fine study of an important and defining aspect of Canadian literature.
Download or read book A Bend in the River written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.
Download or read book Oppositional Aesthetics written by Arun Mukherjee and published by TSAR. This book was released on 1994 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these closely argued essays, taking examples from writing and film, Arun Prabha Mukherjee considers the place of the third world person - both as artistic creator and as a subject of artistic eneavour - in the West. Works of non-mainstream, immigrant artists, she urges, shoul be understood on their own terms. In particular, established Western aethetics, especially the idea of the Universal and its applications, even within the domains of the postcolonial and feminist criticism, are demonstrated as instances of domination and disregard third world experiences and particularities. On the other hand, key canonical texts in the West, blind to these details of the third world lives they portray, are shown to be distortional and even offensive. This important work includes detailed and original considerations of the works of David Lean, Michael Ondaatje, MG Vassanji, Earle Birney, Rohinton Mistry, Neil Bissoondath, Dionne Brand, and numerous others.
Download or read book Other Solitudes written by Linda Hutcheon and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature written by Eugene Benson and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 1199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains over 1,100 entries covering mainly English-Canadian literature, and including new author and title entries, as well as extensive genre surveys.
Download or read book Belonging written by William Kaplan and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Essays presented in January 1992 at a Roundtable on Citizenship sponsored by the Faculty of Law at the U. of Ottawa discuss what it means to be a Canadian and how Canadian citizenship must evolve if it is to serve a unifying ideal. The essays are organized in four broad categories: history; regions; law, constitutionalism, and economics; and individuals and groups. No index. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Writers of Indian Diaspora written by Jasbir Jain and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributory essays; some presented at a seminar held in December 1996 at the University of Rajasthan.
