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Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek and Yiu-nam Leung, eds.
Canadian Culture and Literature: And a Taiwan Perspective.
Edmonton: Research Institute for Comparative Literature, University of Alberta and Hsinchu:
Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Tsing Hua University, 1998. 309 pages, bibliography.
ISBN 0-921490-10-0
CONTENTS

Acknowledgements i


Writing

Daisy Chang alias Chu Hsiao-yin
    Trap (in Mandarin) 1-14
Yan Li
    The Maple City Chinese Women's Club 15-22
Fred Wah
    Excerpts: Poems and Prose 23-31


Society and Culture

Desmond Morton
    Towards a History of Immigration in Canada: Labour Relations and Multiculturalism 35-56
Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
    Social Discourse and Cultural Participation in a Multicultural Society: The Canadian Model 57-69
Earle H. Waugh
    The Structure of Religio-Cultural Adaptation: Mackay and Vandersteene, Missionaries Extraordinaires 71-87


Theatre, Drama, and Film

Kai-chong Cheung
    The Brighter Side of Acculturation: Hollingsworth's Ever Loving and Mother Country 91-94
Juey-fu Hsiao
    Seeing Is (Dis)Believing: trompe l'oeil in Atom Egoyan's Films 95-108
Rachel Juan
    La Scène au féminin dans Les Belles-soeurs de Tremblay 109-114
Sharon Pollock
    The Evolution of an Authentic Voice in Canadian Theatre 115-124
Sherry Simon
    Robert Lepage and Intercultural Theatre 125-143
I-chun Wang
    Historiography of War and Suffering in Pollock's Walsh 145-154


Prose and Poetry

A. Owen Aldridge
    The Cultural Restaurant, Canadian Style 157-172
Peng-hsiang Chen
    Music and Tranquility in E.D. Blodgett's Recent Poetry Collection Apostrophes (in Mandarin) 173-185
Chung-yi Chu
    Munro's "Friend of My Youth": A Mediated Mother-Daughter Relationship 187-193
Elizabeth F. Dahab
    De la Production littéraire et des écrivains canadiens d'origine arabe 195-207
Hsiu-li Juan
    An Understanding of Multiculturalism via Postmodernism:
    A Slant View of Linda Hutcheon and Canadian Literature (in Mandarin) 209-228
Yiu-nam Leung
    Multicultural Ambivalence in Marlyn's Under the Ribs of Death 229-236
Cecilia H.C. Liu
    Folding the Time-Space Continuum: Atwood's Cat's Eye as Chronotopic Bildungsroman 237-249
Joseph Pivato
    Four Languages of Italian-Canadian Writers 251-262
Lynne Van Luven
    Voices from the Past Echo through the Present:
    Choy's The Jade Peony and Lai's When Fox is a Thousand 263-272
Shu-hua Wang
    When the Fox Speaks: Translation, Transformation, and Transgression in
    When Fox is a Thousand (in Mandarin) 273-285

Bibliography

Steven Tötösy de Zepetnek
   Selected Bibliography of Studies about Canadian Ethnic Minority Writing 289-304


About the Contributors 305-309
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