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Towards a New Canadianness: Re(-)Membering Canada in Lawrence Hill’s Any Known Blood (1997) and David Chariandy’s Soucouyant (2007)
Mergeai, Mathilde
2011In Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies, 1 (1-2), p. 83-103
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Keywords :
Lawrence Hill; Any Known Blood; David Chariandy; Soucouyant; Canadian multiculturalism; Black geographies
Abstract :
[en] This article examines the representation of Canadian multiculturalism in Lawrence Hill’s Any Known Blood (1997) and David Chariandy’s Soucouyant (2007). I argue that these novels can be regarded as revisions of Canada’s official policy towards minorities, because they both creatively rewrite silenced parts of national history, and attempt to remap the connections between Canada and the world beyond the national frontiers. Hill’s and Chariandy’s revision of the past and redrawing of the present are made particularly clear in their novels through the representation of Canadian space, more specifically in their distancing from the image of urban centres as areas of cosmopolitanism. This idea of setting the narrative in conventionally Canadian (rural) topographies is also a way of locating their Black characters in a geographical environment traditionally seen as White, which thus allows the writers to question the very elements constitutive of Canadian identity and, by extension, of the Canadian nation.
Research center :
CEREP - Centre d'Enseignement et de Recherche en Études Postcoloniales - ULiège
Disciplines :
Literature
Author, co-author :
Mergeai, Mathilde ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des langues et littératures modernes > Langue et linguistique anglaises modernes
Language :
English
Title :
Towards a New Canadianness: Re(-)Membering Canada in Lawrence Hill’s Any Known Blood (1997) and David Chariandy’s Soucouyant (2007)
Publication date :
2011
Journal title :
Canada and Beyond: A Journal of Canadian Literary and Cultural Studies
Volume :
1
Issue :
1-2
Pages :
83-103
Peer reviewed :
Peer reviewed
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