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It is not very often that a book tries to break disciplinary boundaries with courage and acumen. This book Gender and Diversity: India, Canada and Beyond, confronts conventions, challenges definitions, offers new vocabulary and questions comforting platitudes. Comparing India and Canada, the essays suggest new ways of thinking about the issue of Gender and Diversity in multiple contexts. India and Canada provide a range of comparative paradigms even when they are ...
The present volume critically examines South Asian Canadian fiction in the light of personal narratives which give ethnic existence a 'voice' and create an awareness of the 'different' and the 'other'. Through their narratives, the writers retrieve histories of their communities and fill up the gaps and silences in the meta-narratives of history. The psychological impact of changes in socio-politico-cultural contexts and the problematics of space, gender and ...